Fundamentals of Health Science

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Clara Barton
Founded the American Red Cross
Chinese
Used acupuncture to relieve pain or congestion
Marie Curie
Isolated radium in 1910
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist that Used dissection to draw human body
Dark ages
Emphasis on saving soul and study if medicine
Egyptians
First to use modern records
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created first mercury thermometer
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin in 1928
William Harvey
Described the circulation of blood to and from heart
Hippocrates
Father of medicine and oath
Edward JennerDevelop a vaccine for smallpozRobert Koch developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens...Joseph listerBegan using disinfectant and antiseptics during surgeryGregory MendelEstablished the latter a if heredityFlorence nightingaleFounder of modern nursingLouis PasteurBegan pasteurizing milk to kill bacteriaRhazesAn Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture materialWilliam roentgenDiscovered X-rays in 1895RomansBegun public health and sanitation systemsJonas stalkDeveloped polio vaccine