History of Healthcare

Question 1

Invented the compound Microscope in 1666

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Isolated Radium in 1910, later used to improve X-ray technology & treatment of cancer

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Marie Curie

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Implanted the first artificial heart in 1982

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William Devries

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Surgeon known for 1st Liver transplant in 1963

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Thomas Starzl

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Developed the Polio vaccine in 1952

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Jonas Salk

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Invented the stethoscope in 1819

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Rene Laennec

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Discovered the Smallpox vaccination in 1798, one of the first successful vaccines

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Edward Jenner

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Founded the American Red Cross in 1881

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Clara Barton

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Used disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery in 1865

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Joseph Lister

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Described the circulation of blood flow to and from the heart in 1628

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William Harvey

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Discovered how to extract insulin and use it to treat diabetes during the 1920s

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Sir Frederick Banting

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Discovered Penicillin in 1928

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Alexander Fleming

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Artist who used dissection in order to draw the human body. His drawings are still used today.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Considered the Mother of Nursing.

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Florence Nightingale

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Discovered that microorganisms cause disease (germ theory of communicable disease)

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Louis Pasteur

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Known as the Father of Medicine. He wrote the standards of ethics for which medical ethics is based, known as The Hippocratic Oath.

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Hippocrates

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Invented bifocals and first American medical school

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Ben Franklin

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Discovered X-rays which allowed physicians to have an internal view of the body.

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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Time period where prayer was used to treat illness, sick was taken care of by monks/priests, study of medicine was prohibited, medicine = herbal mixtures

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Dark ages

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Time period: medical universities, bubonic plague killed 3/4 of population in Europe and Asia
Major Diseases: small pox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, malaria

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Middle ages

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Time period: Rebirth of science medicine, body was drawn accurately

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Renaissance

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first organized med care by providing care for injured soldiers, began public health and sanitation systems (built aqueducts and sewers, used filtering systems, drained marshes)

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Ancient Romans

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stressed that a good diet and cleanliness would prevent disease

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Ancient Greeks

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had a strong belief in the need to cure the spirit and nourish the entire body, used acupuncture

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Ancient Chinese

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First people to record health records

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Ancient Egyptians

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Disease and illness was caused by evil spirits and demons.

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Primitive times

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Dissected animals, founder of anatomy

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Aristotle

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an Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material

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Rhazes

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developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens

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Robert Koch

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Early pharmacists

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Apothacaries