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Intro into health care
history of medicine
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Health Care
10th Grade
09/07/2010

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Egyptians
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kept health records identified diseases, used medicine to heal, splinted fractures
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Greeks
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study causes of diseases, Hippocrates
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Dark and Middle Ages
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study of medicine stopped for over 1000 years medicine practiced in monasteries and convent, herbal medicine, plagues
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The Renaissance
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medical schools, study of the body by dissection, printing press made more books
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Leonardo da Vinci
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studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
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William Harvey
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pumping heart and circulation
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek 
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invented microscpes
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Rene Laennec
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invented stethoscope
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Benjamin Franklin
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invented bifocals b/c he had trouble seeing electricity, many more
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Edward Jenner
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vaccination for small pox
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Ignas semmelweiss
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causes of childhood fever, instituded hand washing, died from cut he recieved from autoopsy
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Louis Pasteur
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Micro organisms cause diseases
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Joseph Lister
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the first doctor to use antiseptic during an operation to prevent infection
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Robert Koch
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the father of micro biology
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Wilhelm Roentgent
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discovered x-rays
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Florence Hightingale
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first school of nursing, started during the crimean war, made nursing an honorable profession
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Clara Barton
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established american red cross
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Sigmund freud
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his studies were basis of psychology and psychiatry
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Alexander Fleming
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discovered penicillin
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Jonas Salk
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discovered a killed polio virus vaccin
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Alfred Sabin
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live polio vaccine
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Christian Barnard
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1st human to human heart transplant
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Best and Banting
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discovered insulin
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Dr Jarvic
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artificial heart
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Dr Divecci
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1st heart transplant
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