People through 4C

Question 1

Hippocrates

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Legendary healer physician. Wrote the Hippocratic Corpus. Established Humoral theory. Bloodletting advocate

Question 2

Galen

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Codified humoral theory. Blood is constantly produced. Final authority in medieval europe into the early modern period.

Question 3

Andreas Vesalius

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Anatomical dissection. Started to prove Galen wrong.

Question 3

William Harvey

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Demonstrated circulation of blood, further disproving the Humoral Theory

Question 4

Thomas Sydenham

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Believed in observation of patients. Rejected fever as the disease. Developed disease specifity and nosology

Question 4

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

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Carefully correlated post-mortem findings with ante-mortem case history. Localized pathological findings to specific organs instead of some sort of imbalance.

Question 4

Leopold Auenbrugger

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Used percussion to examine the chest

Question 5

Edward Jenner

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first vaccination for smallpox

Question 6

Benjamin Rush

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Advocated for heroic medicine and helped it become popular in early American Republic

Question 7

Jean Nicolas Corvisart

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Adopted Auenbrugger’s percussion and studied heart diseases

Question 8

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

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Pathologies localized to different tissue planes within organs

Question 9

Rene Laennec

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First stethoscope to focus on tuberculosis. - Auscultation of the chest. Led to terms like rales, rhonchi, and wheezes

Question 10

Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis

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Distrusted simple observation and began using the Numerical Method

Question 11

3 Fundamental procedures of Paris School:

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Physical examination, localization of the disease process through autopsy, numerical method

Question 12

Joseph Jackson Lister

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Significant improvements to the miscroscope.

Question 13

Robert Brown

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identified, described, and named the cell nucelus

Question 14

Schleiden and Schwann

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First Cell Theory

Question 15

Rudolf Virchow

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Finished third tenet of cell theory. Localized important pathological processes to cells. Leukemia

Question 16

First Modern Scientists were _____

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Product of german universities

Question 17

Hermann von Helmholtz

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Ophthalmoscope (eyes)

Question 18

Harvey Cushing

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Brought a sphygmomanometer back to Baltimore

Question 19

Robert Koch

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staining and tissue fixation techniques, oil immersion, microphotography. Worked with the anthrax pathogen

Question 20

Karl Weigert

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staining and tissue fixation techniques

Question 21

Christian Gram

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Positive or negative gram bacteria

Question 22

Claude Bernard

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Greatest Physiologist of his day- focused on controlled circumstances of experimental research. Blinded experiments

Question 23

Johannes Muller

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German physiologist. Joined chemisty and physiology.

Question 24

Louis Pasteur

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personified the importance of science to medicine. examined fermentations and visualized microbes. Disproved spontaneous generation. Inspired Lister and theorized Germ Theory. Big in vaccinations

Question 25

Sir Charles Bell

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Bell’s Palsy

Question 26

Sir Charles Sherrington

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identified synaptic connection and communication among neurons

Question 27

John Snow

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Proved cholera is water-borne. Traced source of 1854 broad street cholera outbreak in London. Father of epidemiology. Early adopter of anesthesia

Question 28

Horace Wells + William Morton

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Anesthesia. Proved is in Ether Dome

Question 29

Joseph Lister

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Work in surgical antisepsis.
Adherent of the new germ theory. Used carbolic acid.

Question 30

Walter Bradford Cannon

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America’s foremost experimental physiologist in 20th century