History Of Health Care

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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Discovered x-rays in 1895.

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Paul Ehrlich

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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease-causing microorganisms.
His discoveries brought about the use of chemicals to fight disease.

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Gerhard Domagh

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Discovered sulfonamide compounds.
These are the first medications effective in killing bacteria.
Changed medicine by killing deadly disease.

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Dmitri Ivanovski

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Discovered that viruses caused some diseases.
Identified poliomyelitis, rabies, measles, influenza, chicken pox, German measles, Herpes zosters and mumps.

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Sigmund Freud

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Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
Studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry.

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Alexander Fleming

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Discovered penicillin.
Reduced the number of deaths from pneumonia, gonorrhea, and blood poisoning.

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Jonas Salk

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Discovered that a killed poliovirus would cause immunitiy to poliomyelitis.

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Albert Savin

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Discovered that a live poliovirus was more effective to produce immunity to poliomyelitis.

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Florence Nightingale

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Brought nursing careers to be seen as an acceptable profession.

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Dorothea Lynde Dix

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Superintendent of the Femal Nurses of the Union Army.

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Clara Barton

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Founded the American Red Cross

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Melinda Ann (Linda) Richardson

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First nurse trained in the United States.

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Lillian Wald

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Founder of American Public Health Nursing.
Established the Henry Street Settlement in New York.

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Mary E. Mahoney

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First African-American graduate nurse.

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Mary Breckinridge

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Pioneer visiting nurse-midwife to the moutain people of Kentucky.
Started one of the first midwifery schools in the United States.