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John Hunter
From: Scotland
Born/ Died:Feb. 13, 1728-Oct. 16
Contributions: Wrote national history of human teeth, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy, and A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-shot Wounds -
Humphry Davy
From: England
Born/ Died: Dec. 17, 1778-May 29, 1829
Contributions: found elements and invented minors safty lamp -
Rene Laennec
From: France
Born/ Died: Feb. 17, 1781-Aug. 13, 1826
Contributions: invented the stethoscope -
Edward Jenner
From: England
Born/ Died: May 17, 1749-January 26, 1823
Contributions: Found vacination for small pox -
James Simpson
From: Scotland
Born/ Died: June 7, 1811-May 6, 1870
Contributions: was the first to use chloroform in obstetrics and the first in Britain to use ether. -
Florence Nightingale
From: Italy
Born/ Died:May 12, 1820-August 13, 1910
Contributions: foundational philosopher of modern nursing -
Louis Pasteur
From: France
Born/ Died: December 27, 1822-September 28, 1895
Contributions: developed vaccines against anthrax and rabies, and pioneered the study of molecular asymmetry -
Joseph Lister
From: England
Born/ Died: April 5, 1827-Feb. 10, 1912
Contributions: founded the antiseptic medicine -
Robert Koch
From: Hannover
Born/ Died: Dec. 11, 1843-May 27, 1910
Contributions: cofounder of bacteriology and found out bacteria responsible for tuberculosis and cholera -
Wilhelm Roentgen
From: Prussia
Born/ Died: March 27, 1845-February 10, 1923
Contributions: he discovered xray -
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