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25 Cards in this Set
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Philosopher and Poet |
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Aristotle
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"Father of Physiology" Air is purified by holiness of blood took in air, cleanse air with sanctity of blood life was a force given to all beings on Earth. |
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Galen |
Influenced by Humorism - body made of water disciple of Aristotle |
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IBN-AL-NAFIS |
described hemodynamic flow thru heart described pulmonary circulation (thru capillaries)
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Leewenhoek |
Made single lens microscope (simple) Janssen's compound microscope Robert Hooke (cell) compound microscope |
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Leonardo Da Vinci |
Renaissance man showed fetus insitu, contracting uterus, oxytocin in females - hormone for milk let down (origin of milky way) |
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Tintoretto |
Art of Renaissance (the milky way) paintings |
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Vesalius |
Anatomist par excellence wrote humanis corporis fabrica (Galen's postulates) studied in spain, france, italy directed medical schools first to show female internal organs (fallopian tube) created oldest human skeleton |
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Harvey |
demo blood only flows one way veins - blood move proximally to distally circulation occurring in blood vessels |
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Jenner |
innoculation with cowpox secretions - vaccination programs concept of microbe-caused illness - india, treatment of small pox |
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Beaumont |
father of GI physiology - treat patients with large fistula work on gastric digestion of food
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Pavlov |
GI modeling of dogs (Pavlov Dogs) used from Beaumonts work = Nobel Prize no food = excess salivation register (psycho-motor) conditioning principle
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Darwin |
made several scientific expeditions - HMS beagle - Madagascar created Origin of the Species observations lead to adaptation and evolution
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Bernard |
cell biologist internal environment "millieu, interieur" suggested that blind exps, used to maintain scientific honesty in making observations
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Starling |
english physiologist starling equation of fluid shifts across capillaries first hormone secretin hormone concept peristalisis
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Cannon |
american physiologist fight or flight response form study of ANS internal environment preserved (homeostasis)
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Banting |
nobel prize for discovery of INSULIN greatest canadian
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Salk |
scientist medical researcher discovered first Polio Vaccine focus on possible vaccine for HIV |
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Selye |
extensive study of stress stress cause physiological change in body good stress = bone growth bad stress = catecholemines - cardiac damage
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Timiras Paola |
studied stress and aging orchestrated health fair died at 85 years professor at UC Berkeley |
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Mary Lyon |
geneticist - x chromosomes vary in appearance proposed that one X remains inactive chromatin while other is fully active concept of X inactivation = Lyonization
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Stanley Prusiner |
MD neurobiologist and biochemist Mad cow disease - infectious proteins (prions) - devoid of nucleic acid (Won Nobel prize) discovered etiologic agent for Creutzfeldt-Jakob - mad cow - cattle scrappie - sheep spoongioform encephalitis - humans |
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IBN-AL-NAFIS |
Described correct hemodynamics flow through heart
Pulmonary circulation & capillaries between artery and vein (corrected by Malphigi 1660) |
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Leeuwenhoek |
Made single lens microscope
Jan Swammerdam lesser makers of true compound microscope Robert Hooke (term: cell) Janssen, Zacharias, & Hans |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
Renaissance man |
