History of Health Care

Athanasius Kircher | 1st to use microscope |

Robert Hooke | 1st to use the term cells; artificial respi. can preserve individual life |

Marcello Malphigi | Founder of Microscopic Anatomy or Histology |

Francesco Redi | Maggots in decaying organic matter |

Santorio/Sanctorius | Founder of Physiological Metabolism |

Robert Boyle | Air is necessary for life and combustion |

John Mayow | Exposing dark venous blood to certain gases |

Robert Hooke | Demonstrated artificial respiration |

Thomas Sydenham | One of the founders of the Science of Epidemiology |

Francois Mauriceau | Obstetrician |

Hendrik van Deventer | Father of Modern Midwifery |

Joseph Breur | Treating Hysteria |

John Snow and William Budd | Germ Theory |

Fijkman and Grijns | Production of beriberi (Polyneuritis) |

Carl von Linne/Linnaeus | Father of Taxonomy |

Andreas Marggraf | Different potassium and sodium compounds |

Christopher Marshall | Fighting Quaker |

Elizabeth (granddaughter) | First woman pharmacist in US |

Karl Wilhelm Scheele | Greatest Pharmacist-Chemist |

Martin Klaprooth | Father of Modern Analytical Chemistry |

Dr. Zabdiel Boylston | Introduced inoculation of small pox in America |

Charles-Francois Felix | Royal surgeon who cured Louis XV |

John Hunter | Put surgery on scientific basis |

Jacques Daviel | Treatment of cataract by extraction of the lens |

William Smellie | Safer rules in using the forceps |

Charles White | Surgical cleanliness in Obstetrics |

John Howard | He found that jails to endemic fever nests |

Giovanni Battista Morgagni | Autopsy |

Bernardino Ramazzini | Industrila Hygiene/ Occupational Hygiene |

Johann Peter Frank | Modern Public Hygiene |

Pierre Bretonneau | 1st successful tracheotomy |

Abaham Colles | Colles fracture |

Thomas Addison | Addison’s Disease (adrenal gland) |

Thomas Hodgkin | Hodgkin’s Disease (lymph nodes) |

James Parkinson | Parkinson’s Disease (deficiency of dopamine) |...