Chinese - Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion
Robert Koch - Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
Florence Nightingale - Founder of modern nursing
Joseph Lister - Began use disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery
Gabriel Fahrenheit - Created the first...
HISTORY AND TRENDS OF HEALTH
CARE
Marie Curie - Isolated radium in 1910
Gregory Mendel - Established the patterns of heredity
Edward Jenner - Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796
William Harvey - Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart
Romans - Began public health and sanitation systems
William Roentgen - Discovered X-Rays in 1895
Hippocrates - The father of medicine
Sir Alexander Fleming - Discovered penicillin in 1928
Leonardo da Vinci - Artist who used dissection to draw the human body
Dark Ages - Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was
prohibited
Clara Barton - Founded the American Red Cross in 1881
Egyptians - Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records
Louis Pasteur - Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria
Chinese - Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion
Robert Koch - Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens
Florence Nightingale - Founder of modern nursing
Joseph Lister - Began use disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery
Gabriel Fahrenheit - Created the first mercury thermometer
Jonas Salk - Developed the polio vaccine in 1952
Rhazes - An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material
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