History of medicine & legal ramifications/code of ethics

Isolated radium in 1910 which led to a new idea that radium would be a panacea

• Marie Curie

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Wilhelm Roentgen

• Lillian Wald

Began public health and sanitation systems

• Romans

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• Chinese

The father of medicine

• Hippocrates

• Aristotle

• Dalton

• Von Leeuwenhock

Founded the American Red Cross in 1881

• Dorthea Dix

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Lillian Wald

• Clara Barton

Developed a method of using culture plates to grow bacteria and identify pathogens

• Joseph Lister

• Gregory Mendel

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur

Founder of modern nursing

• Florence Nightengale

• Lillian Wald

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Clara Barton

Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery

• Louis Pasteur

• Joseph Lister

• Wilhelm Roentgen

• Robert Koch

Created the first mercury thermometer

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

• Von Leeuwenhoek

Developed the polio vaccine in 1952

• Jonas Salk

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

• Robert Cook

• Dorthea Dix

Superintendent of female nurses in the Army and helped initiate reform for how mentally ill were treated

• Clara Barton

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Dorthea Dix

• Sigmund Freud