HealthCare Pioneers

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Across
  1. 5. first African American to become a professional nurse
  2. 6. pioneer in neurosurgery; separating conjoined twins
  3. 7. founder of modern nursing
  4. 9. discovered X-rays
  5. 12. discovered Oxygen & its use for respirations
  6. 13. invented the microscope
  7. 15. public health nurse known for social work at Henry Street Settlement
  8. 16. founder of the American Red Cross
  9. 17. Father of Modern Medicine
  10. 20. founder of modern bacteriology; discovered bacteria anthrax, cholera, TB
  11. 22. created rabies, anthrax, and cholera vaccines
  12. 24. first woman in America to earn a medical degree
  13. 25. father of antiseptic surgery
Down
  1. 1. discovered penicillin
  2. 2. invented the stethoscope
  3. 3. described circulation of the blood & pumping of the heart
  4. 4. created the smallpox vaccine
  5. 8. discovered viruses
  6. 10. theory of psychoanalysis
  7. 11. discovered cause of childbed fever; worked to promote handwashing
  8. 14. studied & recorded anatomy of the body
  9. 18. first African American woman to earn a medical degree
  10. 19. pioneered CABG by inventing the roller pump
  11. 21. created medicines with peanuts
  12. 23. created the polio vaccine