| A | B |
|---|
| Hippocrates | Took the mysticism out of medicine |
| Hippocrates | Promoted the concept that the body has the ability to heal itself |
| Hippocrates | Hippocratic Oath |
| Aristotle | Founder of comparative anatomy |
| Galen | Wrote 500 treatises |
| Galen | First to describe cranial nerves |
| Galen | First experimental dissection of spinal chord |
| Vesalius | Father of modern anatomy |
| Vesalius | Performed human dissection on cadavers |
| Pare | Used hot irons and oil for cauterization |
| Pare | Started arterial ligation |
| Hooke | The cell theory |
| Leeuwenhoek | Developed the lighted microscope |
| Leeuwenhoek | Discovered magnification process |
| Leeuwenhoek | First to observe molecules |
| Hunter | Experimented with tissue transfer |
| Hunter | First to classify teeth |
| Auenbrugger | Developed percussion |
| Jenner | First to develop a vaccination for smallpox |
| Semmelweiss | correlation infection with frequency of hand-washing |
| Pasteur | Proved microorganisms cause disease |
| Pasteur | Established germ theory of fermation |
| Long | First to use ether as an anesthetic agent |
| Billroth | Father of modern abdominal surgery |
| Billroth | First esophagectomy, laryngectomy, and gastrectomy |
| Lister | Established first principles of aseptic technique |
| Lister | Used carbolic acid to kill microbes |
| Roentgen | Discovered the x-ray |
| Koch | Discovered rod-shaped bacteria |
| Koch | Petri dish, Agar |
| Ehrlich | Introduced injection of chemicals |
| Ehrlich | Magic bullet or Salvarsan |
| Reed | Yellow fever |
| Halsted | Developed the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic |
| Halsted | Radical mastectomy, cholecystectomy |
| Halsted | Tissue approximation |
| Halsted | First blood transfusion |
| Beijerinck | Developed the concept of a virus |
| Cushing | Father of modern neurosurgery |
| Cushing | Blood pressure measurement |
| Cushing | ESU |
| Fleming | Discovered penicillin |
| Salk | Put Pittsburgh on the map in the medical world |
| Salk | First polio vaccine (injection) |
| Sabin | First oral polio vaccine |
| Debakey | Most famous surgeon ever |
| Debakey | Invented the roller pump |
| Debakey | Developed method of correcting aortic aneurysms using grafts |
| Debakey | Jarvik 7 |
| Cooley | First successful heart transplant |
| Cooley | First artificial heart transplant |
