A | B |
Father of Medicine | Hippocrates (think of a "daddy" hippo_ |
Discovered X-ray | Roentgen (think of breaking a hand while "rowing" a boat) |
Described circulation of blood to and from heart | William Harvey (think of "heart and Har" |
Founded the American Red Cross | Clara Barton (she painted a Red Cross over the bar) |
Founded modern nursing | Florence Nightengale (N in Nursing- N in Nightengale) |
Pasteurized milk to kill bacteria | Louis Pasteur (milk from cows in the pasture) |
Created the first mercury thermometer | Gabriel Fahrenheit (Mercury is high in the sky) |
Used acupuncture to relieve pain | Chinese (puncture with a needle -ChiNese) |
Kept accurate health records | Egyptians (folder on top of a pyramid) |
Began public health and sanitation system | Romans (The MAN washed his hands for sanitation) |
Study of medicine not allowed - emphasis on saving soul | Dark Ages (The light was off in the examination room) |
Used disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery | Joseph Lister (Listerine) |
Used animal gut for suture material | Rhazes (He used a RAZOR to cut the SUTURE) |
Developed culture plate method to identify pathogens | Robert Koch (O in Robert and Koch is the circle) |
Artist who used dissection to draw the body | Leonardo da Vinci (the V in Vinci is pointing to the cut in the body) |
Isolated radium | Marie Curie (Radiation will help CURE cancer) |
Established patterns of heredity | Gregory Mendel (there are tall MEN because of heredity) |
Vaccine for smallpox | Edward Jenner (Mr. EDWARDS is SMALL) |
Vaccine for polio | Jonas Salk (polio = can't walk= rhymes with SALK |
Discovered penicillin | Sir Alexander FlemingI colored dots on the FLAMINGO with a PEN) |