History of Medicine Review
Rene Laennec
Birth Control Pills
Elizabeth Blackwell
Gabriel Farenheit
Louis Pasteur
HIV
Clara Barton
Sigmund Freud
Sir Alexander Fleming
Joseph Lister
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Walter Reed
Benjamin Franklin
Oldest Surgery this done today
Wilhelm Roentgen
Edward Jenner
Hippocrates
Invented the stethoscope
Were approved by FDA in 1960
Invented the mercury Thermometer
First Female Physician
Virus causing Aids was identified in 1984
Father of psychiatry and psychology Studies form basis of psychology and psychiatry
Founded the American Red Cross
Discovered Penicillin
Used antiseptics and disinfectants during surgery to prevent infection
Invented the microscope
Demonstrated the mosquitoes carried yellow fever
Invented bifocals for glasses
Trepanation or trephining
Known as the modern founder of nursing
Discovered X-rays
Developed a vaccination for small pox
Known at the father of medicine
Proved that microorganisms caused disease