History of Medicine Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Marie Curie | Isolated radium in 1910 |
Gregory Mendel | Established the patterns of heredity |
Edward Jenner | Developed a vaccine for smallpox 1796 |
William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart |
Romans | Began public health and sanitation systems |
Discovered x-rays in 1895 | William Roengten |
The father of medicine | Hippocrates |
Discovered pencil in 1928 | Sir Alexander Flemming |
Artist who used dissection to draw the human body | Leonardo Da Vinci / Michael Angelo |
Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and use of medicine was prohibited. | Dark Ages |
Clara Barton | Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 |
Egyptians | Earliest people known to maintain accurate health results |
Louis Pasteur | Pasteurized milk / "germ theory". |
Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion | Chinese |
Developed the culture plate to identify pathogens | Robert Koch |
Florence Nightintale | Founder of modern nursing |
Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery | Joseph Lister |
Gabriel Farenheit | Created first mercury thermometer |
Developed polio vaccine in 1952 | Jonas Salk |
Rhazes | Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material. |
Oncogene | Gene from the DNA that shows a cancer disease. |
(Dark Ages) What was the cause of illness? | Demons / supernatural spirits / punishments from the gods. |
(Dark Ages) What was their method of cure? | Prayer / divine intervention |
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