philoso[hers

• Hippocrates Father of Medicine
• Hippocrates He contributed largely to the professionalization of medicine, divorcing it from religious rituals & the supernatural.
• Hippocrates He wrote "De Aere, Aquis Et Locis" or Of air, Water, and Land and "The "Constitution of Man"
• Hippocrates He established Hippocratic School of Medicine.
• Hippocrates It was also the Greeks who came up with the concept of the Four Humors: Phlegm, Blood, Yellow Bile & Black bile.
• Hippocrates He established Hippocratic School of Medicine and was the first to use terms which we still use today such as acute, chronic, endemic, epidemic, paroxysms, and exacerbation
• Galen Greek physician who migrated to Rome, dissected monkeys
• Galen His works became a foundation for the study of Human Anatomy and his works became scientific dogma
• Al-Razi “Father of Pediatrics”
• Al-Razi wrote "The Diseases of Children" and was a trailblazer in the field of Ophthalmology.
• Avicenna Wrote “The Canon of Medicine” which became the major reference book for medical schools world wide until 16th century.
• Avicenna One of the major contributions of Islam in medicine was the proliferation of female doctors since medieval Muslims would only want female physicians to examine female members of the household
• Girolamo Fracastoro He broadened the public’s understanding of how epidemics or infections were spread
• Girolamo Fracastoro He introduced the concept of "fomites" which could be a vehicle carrying pathogen that could cause disease.
• Andreas Vesalius He wrote “On The Structure of the Human Body” where he described a detailed structure of the human body
• William Harvey He did an intensive study of the human circulatory system and properties of blood.
• Anton Van Leewenhoek He observed through a crude microscope bacteria and other micro-organisms and initiated a new thinking on diseases and how they can be caused by these organisms.
• Edward Jenner• Father of Immunology
• Edward Jenner He discovered the vaccine against the smallpox virus and observed that while many were susceptible to smallpox, a group of milkmaids was actually “resistant” to the diseases
• Edward Jenner He surmised that the exposure of milkmaids to cowpox made them resistant to smallpox.• He coined the term “vaccine” from the word “vacca” or “cow”.
• Edward Chadwick• Secretary of England’s Poor Law Commission, wrote “Report on the Inquiry into Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population of Great Britain.”
• Edward Chadwick This publication is considered to be one of the most important documents of modern public health.
• Dr. John Snow• Father of Epidemiology
• Dr. John Snow He was able to elucidate how cholera was transmitted by tracing the sources, which was actually a water pump
• Louis Pasteur • Spontaneous generation • His work ranged from fermentation , inoculation of vaccine against rabies and the killing of bacteria in milk which is now known as pasteurization.
• Peter Piot • He discovered the Ebola virus while investigating a mysterious illness in Zaire (now known as Congo). • There is currently no cure for the disease and an Ebola vaccine is also being developed and has shown to be promising based on clinical trials.