| A | B |
|---|
| Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
| Chinese | Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion |
| Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Artist who used dissection to draw human body |
| Dark Ages | Emphasis placed on saving soul & study of medicine was prohibited |
| Egyptians | Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit | Created first mercury thermometer |
| Sir Alexander Fleming | Discovered penicillin in 1928 |
| William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
| Hippocrates | The father of medicine |
| Edward Jenner | Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
| Robert Koch | Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens |
| Joseph Lister | Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery |
| Gregory Mendel | Established the patterns of heredity |
| Florence Nightengale | Founder of modern nursing |
| Louis Pasteur | Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria |
| Rhazes | An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material |
| William Roentgen | Discovered X-rays in 1895 |
| Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
| Jonas Salk | Developed the polio vaccine in 1952 |
