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24 Cards in this Set
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Hippocrates
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Father of Medicine. Wrote Oath to Hippocrates
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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Created first microscope. Discovered existence of tiny organisms.
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Gabrielle Fallopius
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Discovered female fallopian tubes
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Louis Pasteur
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Discovered tiny microorganisms can cause disease, created process of pasteurization
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Sigmund Freud
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Discovered mind has conscious/unconscious parts, Father of psychology and psychiatry
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Garhard Domagk
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Used sulfonamide compount to create fist medicine to kill bacteria
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Benjamin Franklin
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Invented bifocals, discovered colds passed from one person to another
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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Discovered X-rays by accident
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Edward Jenner
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Created immunization to smallpox, lead to immunization and beginning of preventive medicine
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Ignaz Semmelweiss
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Identified child bed fever. Created a sanitary system for doctors
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawed and studied human anatomy
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Robert Kock
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Discovered disease causing microorganisms, Father of Microbiology, introduced sanitation to prevent disease
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Bartholommeo Eustachus
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discovered Eustacian tubes
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Joseph Lister
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used first antiseptic during surgery
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William Harvey
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used knowledge from Vinci to understand circulation of blood
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Jonas Salk
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discovered killed polio virus caused immunity to disease, with injectable vaccine
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Rene' Laennec
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Invented stethoscope
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James Lind
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found cure for scurvy
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Alexander Fleming
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discovered penicillin
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Albert Sabin
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used live polio virus to form more effective vaccine
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Rhazus
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Distinguished smallpox and measles
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Paul Elrich
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found cure for shypilus about 606 attempts
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Thomas Sydenhem
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English Hippocrates
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Joseph Priestly
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discovered oxygen released from plants during photosynthesis
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