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History of Medecine
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| trepanning | oldest form of surgery .. drilling, grinding, scraping a hole in the skull |
| mesopotamia | ancient tablets in cuneiform |
| hammurabi | code of hammurabi- fee schedule for surgery.listed patients rights |
| africa and egypt | mummification- human anatomy embalming, faith healing, surger, and autopsy |
| indus valley | ayurvedic medicine- surgery, pedriatics, toxicologhy, eyes ears, throat, internal medecine. blah |
| hoppocrates | founder of medecine. seperation of medicine from religion. |
| galen | dissections apes and other animals - human anatomy |
| asclepius | god of med.. rod of asclepius |
| susrata | father of indian surgery - first plastic surgery |
| rhazes | physician and alchemist .. alcohol in med |
| abu al qasim | father of surgery |
| ibn sina | persian physician- ubooks used as medical txt in europe |
| roger frugard | surgeon who wrote first dominant txt on surgical procedures |
| theodoric de luccca | cleanliness during sugical process - use of opium as an anesthetic |
| ibn al nafis | described the pulmonary circulation of blood |
| paracelsus | used chemicals and minerals in med. father of txicology.. heal wound naturally |
| ambroise pare | father of modern surgery. speacialist of treating wounds .. ligature (tying off arteries) |
| andreas vesalius | founder of modern human anatomy. book with human dissections |
| william harvey | described blood circulation |
| thomas sydenham | descrip. of numerous diseases .. |
| anthony van leeuwenhoek | father of microbiology - improved microscope and 1st to c microorganisms |
| john hunter | surgeon- teeth, inflammation, treatment for gunshot wounds |
| john morgan | founded 1st medical school |
| benjamin rush | mental illness could b cured w/ proper treatment. the concept of addiction |
| philipppe pinel | humane treatment for the mentally ill |
| edward jenner | material from cowpox virus could b used for smallpox vaccination |
| james marion sims | father of american gynecology |
| ignaz semmelweis | doctors wash their hands to reduce incidence of postpartum infections in mothers giving birth |
| hermann von helmholtz | theories on vision and visual perception .. invented ophthalmoscope |
| rudolf virchow | father of pathology- every cell originates from an existing cell |
| elizabeth blackwell | firts female to get a medical degree |
| clara barton | civil war nurse- founder of american red cross |
| joseph lister | sterility ..using carbloic acid |
| paul ehrlich | creating first antibiotic-- magic bullets |
| santiago ramon y cajal | founder of neuroscience .. reserach on nervous system |
| walter reed | opened field of epidemiology and biomedecine by isolating cause of yellow fever in cuba |
| harvey cushing | brain surgery. survival rate for brain surgery - diagnosing brain tumors with x rays- discovery of cushings disease |
| walter b cannon | physiologist. using salts to improve x ray images. concept of homeostasis |
| in donald | use of ultrasound. |
| christiaan barnard | first successful human heart transplant |
| helen brooke taussig | founder of pediatric cardiology.. discovery of the casue for blue ababy syndrome |
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