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Period: 100 to 410
Romans
Begin public health and sanitation systems
753 BC-410 AD -
Period: 100 to 300
Egyptians
earliest people know to maintain accurate health records -
Period: 100 to 220
Chinese
1700 BC-220 AD
Used acupunture to relieve pain and congestion -
Period: 100 to 377
Hippocrates, father of medicine
460-377 BC -
Period: 400 to
Dark Ages
Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Renaissance
rebirth of science, stimulated medical practice just as it did all other European intellectual pursuits -
Period: Jan 1, 1452 to Jan 1, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist who used dissection to draw the human body -
William Harvey
Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart -
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Created the first mercury thermometer -
Edward Jenner, developed a vaccine for smallpox
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Florence Nightengale
Founder of Modern Nursing -
Period: to
Robert Koch
Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens -
Gregory Mendel, Established the patterns of heredity
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Joseph Lister
Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery -
Clara Barton, founded the American Red Cross in 1881
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Louis Pasteur
Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria, vaccine for rabies -
William Roentgen- Discovered X-rays in 1895
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Marie Curie, isolated radium
Isolated Radium -
Sir Alexander Fleming, discovered penicillin
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Jonas Salk
Developed the polio vaccine -
Louis Brown
very first test tube baby born -
Rhazes
910 AD, an Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material
