1. People of the Past

3. Fifth Century B.C. Hippocrates 460-377 B. C. & Hippocratic Corpus
Early Western world’s bible of medical practice.
Cranial surgery and cataract operations to faint sounds of the chest when pleurisy was present.
Hippocratic Oath is still taken today at medical school commencement

4. Galen 129 – 210 A. D.
Greek from Asia Minor, his work lasted about 1,400 years.
Descriptions of large muscle groups
Very egotistical which led to bad guesses and unsupported theories. Ex: evil spirits lived in blood stream
Wrote over 125 volumes, 83 still exist
Wrote on movement of muscle and nerves.
His reign came to an end with the Renaissance

5. Theophrastus Bombastus van Hohenheim (1493-1541)
                                                        
Theophrastus Bombastus van Hohenheim ( )
16th Century Swiss healer.
Father of anesthesia
Remembered by his chosen name Paracelsius to proclaim that he was superior even to Celsius
Medical contributions:
Lung ailments of miners
Taught at University of Basel
Started first lecture by burning all the books written by Galen

6. Andreas Vesalius 1514- 64 From Belgium
Also concluded that Galen’s work was imperfect
Studied in Paris
University of Padua Professor at age 23
Revolutionized the dissection of the cadaver by actually performing it himself (disproving many of Galen’s theories)
“Greatest medical book ever written” – Humani Corporis Fabrica (on the Fabric of the Human Body) an anatomy text.

7. Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Father and son team of Dutch spectacle makers devised a microscope in 1590
This led to Galileo’s (Father of Modern Physics and Astronomy) telescope and seeing craters on the moon.

8. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
KNOWN FOR
Identified certain bacteria by studying blood through a microscope
FUN FACTS
- Received no higher education and was made fun of
Over 500 microscopes
More of a magnifying glass
“…whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof…”

9. Edward Jenner KNOWN FOR Vaccination of smallpox FUN FACTS:
Inoculated people with cow-pox
Vacca = cow (latin)
Heard milk maids did not contract smallpox

11. Louis Pasteur KNOWN FOR Developed technique of pasteurization of milk
FUN FACTS:
More famous for his germ theory of disease which led to safe brewing of beer….
Made vaccines for anthrax and rabies
"Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment."

12. Ignaz Phillipp Semmelweis
KNOWN FOR
Introduced antisepsis to prevent infection transfer and eliminating puerperal fever.
FUN FACTS
Got a masters in Midwifery
Made the doctors and medical students wash their hands with chlorinated lime.
Public did not support hand washing
1865 He died in an asylum…

13. John Snow
KNOWN FOR
Discovered that cholera was spread by seepage of sewage into a well.
FUN FACTS
Took the handle off wells
A vegetarian
Lectured on forensic medicine

14. Alexander Flemming KNOWN FOR
Discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic
FUN FACTS
It was sort of an accident!
“A spore that drifted into his lab and took root on a culture dish started a chain of events that altered forever the treatment of bacterial infections” By DR. DAVID HO

15. David Ho KNOWN FOR Drug cocktails for the treatment of AIDS FUN FACTS
Classmates laughed at him and thought him stupid because he couldn’t speak English
TIME magazine Man of the Year in 1996
Did not treat but helped them lead nearly normal lives