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3000 BCE
Egyptians
The first people that we know of to keep accurate health records. -
1700 BCE
Chinese
When people had pain or congestion, they used acupuncture to relieve it. -
753 BCE
Romans
The Romans were the first to learn the importance of cleanliness which led them to create health and sanitation systems. -
460 BCE
Hippocrates
Known as ''The Father of Medicine''. -
Nov 11, 1347
Dark Ages
The breakout of the bubonic plague which killed 75% of the population. -
Aug 24, 1511
Leonardo da Vinci
Used dissection while drawing a portrait of the human body. -
Apr 30, 1578
William Harvey
He was the first to find out how circulation of blood and from the heart was. -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Inventor of the mercury thermometer. -
Edward Jenner
Created a medicine that would get rid of smallpox. -
James Parkinson
The first to describe Paralysis Agitans -
Florence Nightengale
Founded modern nursing. -
Joseph Lister
When performing surgery, he would use disinfectants and antiseptics to clean the patient. -
Alois Alzheimer
Diagnosed the disease that bears his name. -
Gregory Mendel
Patterns of heredity -
Louis Pateur
Found out how to kill bacteria by pasteurizing milk. -
Clara Barton
At age 63, she founded the American Red Cross. -
Robert Koch
He developed a way to identify pathogens by using the culture plate method. -
William Roentgen
The first person to discover what X rays were. -
Rhazes
The first Arab physician to use an animal gut for suture material. -
Marie Curie
Found out how to isolate radium in 1910. -
Sir Alexander Flemming
The first to ever discover penicillin. -
Charles Drew
Pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large scale blood bank in the U.S. -
Jonas Salk
Inventor of the polio vaccine -
James Watson
Won nobel prize-winning biophysical and researcher credited with discovering the double helix structure of DNA. -
Elizabeth Stern
Identified 250 stages of a ceruical cells progression from normal to cancerous.
