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Hippocrates
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Ancient Greece (460-377BC)
applied rational and logical process to medicine and made medicine a scientific process. |
Father of Medicine
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Galen
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ancient Rome (born 129AD)
originally from Greece physician to the gladiators as well as Marcus Aurelius first great anatomist |
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Andreas Versalius
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Brussels anatomist (1514-1564)
Published De Humani Corporus Fabrica in 1543 kept graphic records of his anatomical findings |
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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
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used simple microscope
first to describe microorganisms (animalcules) father of microbiology |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
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American physician and poet (1809-1894)
published the contagiousness of puerperal fever suggested the link between physicians and puerperal sepsis infections |
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Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis
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(1818-1865)
observed mothers whose babies were delivered by med students had higher rate of puerperal sepsis compared to midwives (1% or less mortality rate) instituted hand washing between patients to reduce infections documented infection rates declined sharply when hand washing with chlorinated lime was performed prior to patient contact his recommendations were rejected |
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Louis Pasteur
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(1822-1895)
put forward the theory of biogenesis pasteurization: selective destruction of microorganisms established germ theory fermentation developed early vaccines |
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Joseph Lister
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(1827-1912)
surgeon from Scotland influenced by Pasteur's research, Lister believed that wound infections were caused my microbes published his work in 1867 to kill microbes before surgery, he prepared instruments, incision site, hands of surgeon, with phenol (carbolic acid) this started sterile technique |
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John Tyndall
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(1820-1893)
English physicist one of the first to observe the greenhouse effect helped develop fiberoptic surgical scope discovered spores |
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Robert Koch
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(1843-1910)
linked pathogen to disease it causes |
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Alexander Fleming
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(1881-1955)
discovered penicillin (1928) when a mold culture contaminated a staphylococci culture |
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Jonas Salk
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(1914-1995)
developed killed vaccine for poliomyelitis began research on AIDS vaccine |
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William Stewart Halsted
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(1852-1922)
very influential in modern surgical training and techniques established surgical residency training |
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