history of medicine Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
retrovirus | a large group of RNA viruses that includes the leukoviruses and lentiviruses; they carry reserve transcriptase |
diseases related to retroviruses | HIV & AIDS & lymphotropic virus type 1 |
Hippocrates | the father of medicine; said that diseases were caused by natural causes rather than evil spirits or souls |
Edward Jenner | developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
joseph Lister | (Listerine) began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery |
Clara Barton | founded the American red cross in 1881 |
Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
William Roentgen | discovered X-rays in 1895 |
Michale Angello & Leonardo Da Vinci | artists who used dissection to draw the human body |
Benjamin Franklin | invented the bifocals |
Romans | began public health and sanitation systems |
Louis Pasteur | began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria |
Sir Alexander Fleming | discovered penicillin in 1928 |
Jonas Salk | developed the polio vaccine in 1952 |
marie curie | isolated radium in 1910 |
dark ages | study of medicine was prohibited |
William harvey | described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
Robert koch | developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens |
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