Historical Figures in Medicine

Match the following

• created the 1st mercury thermometer

• William Harvey

• invented the microscope

• Anton Leeuwenhoek

• known as the father of modern surgery

• Gabriel Fallopius

• identified fallopian tubes

• Ambroise Pare

• described circulation of blood

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

Edward Jenner

• created 1st mercury thermometer

• developed a vaccine for smallpox

• described circulatory system

• invented bifocals

Benjamin Franklin

• created 1st mercury thermometer

• developed a vaccine for smallpox

• described circulatory system

• invented bifocals

One of several individuals called the "Father of Microbiology"

Rene Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec invented the stethoscope, draw a picture of this tool

Match the following

• identified the eustachian tube

• Rene Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec

• est. scientific surgical procedures

• John Hunter

• made, prescribed and sold medications

• Joseph Priestly

• discovered the element of oxygen

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• invented the stethoscope

• Apothecaries

Anton VanLeeuwenhoek named the small things he saw under the microscope ______

• little animals

• cells

• bacteria

• animalcules

What did Leeuwenhoek create to look at cells?

• Light Bulb
• Telescope
• Cork Cells
• Microscope

Place each in their time period

Groups:

(a) 16th Century

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(b) 17th Century

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(c) 18th Century

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(d) Renaissance

• 1st successful cesarean section operation performed

• use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding

• 1st anatomy book published

• small pox vaccine developed

• circulation of blood to and from the heart