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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...

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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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