People through 4C Flashcards
Hippocrates
Legendary healer physician. Wrote the Hippocratic Corpus. Established Humoral theory. Bloodletting advocate
Galen
Codified humoral theory. Blood is constantly produced. Final authority in medieval europe into the early modern period.
Andreas Vesalius
Anatomical dissection. Started to prove Galen wrong.
William Harvey
Demonstrated circulation of blood, further disproving the Humoral Theory
Thomas Sydenham
Believed in observation of patients. Rejected fever as the disease. Developed disease specifity and nosology
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Carefully correlated post-mortem findings with ante-mortem case history. Localized pathological findings to specific organs instead of some sort of imbalance.
Leopold Auenbrugger
Used percussion to examine the chest
Edward Jenner
first vaccination for smallpox
Benjamin Rush
Advocated for heroic medicine and helped it become popular in early American Republic
Jean Nicolas Corvisart
Adopted Auenbrugger’s percussion and studied heart diseases
Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
Pathologies localized to different tissue planes within organs
Rene Laennec
First stethoscope to focus on tuberculosis. - Auscultation of the chest. Led to terms like rales, rhonchi, and wheezes
Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis
Distrusted simple observation and began using the Numerical Method
3 Fundamental procedures of Paris School:
Physical examination, localization of the disease process through autopsy, numerical method
Joseph Jackson Lister
Significant improvements to the miscroscope.