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Prin Health Medicine
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Discovers mold that produces penicillin in 1928; father of antibiotics | Alexander Fleming |
| founded american red cross; civil war 19th century; pioneered women in healthcare; Angel of the Battlefield | Clara Barton |
| disease not from God; Father of Medicine; wrote standards of ethics which is basis for today | Hippocrates |
| invented stethoscope; autopsy and stethoscope | Rene Laennec |
| began sterilization with carbolic acid; antiseptic | Joseph Lister |
| disease caused by microorganisms, discovered rabies, pasteurization and anthrax | Louis Pasteur |
| polio vaccination shot version | Jonas Salk |
| discovered blood circulation | William Harvey |
| human anatomy, artist, drawings, human | Leonardo da Vinci |
| advocated for the mentally ill | Dorthea Dix |
| a nurse that opened the first nursing school | Florence Nightingale |
| used radium in radiotherapy | Marie Curie (Pierre) |
| invented microscope; observed microorganisms | Anton van Leeuwekhoek |
| smallpox vaccination | Edward Jenner |
| discovered oxygen | Joseph Priestly |
| invented bifocals, found that colds could be passed from person to person | Benjamin Franklin |
| Father of Microbiology; identified germ causing TB | Robert Koch |
| discovered x-rays | Wilhelm Roentgen |
| father of modern genetics | Gregor Mendal |
| sterile condition, free from all germs | asepsis |
| loss of feeling or sensation | anesthesia |
| organisms so small that they can only be seen through a microscope | microorganisms |
| act or process of dividing; taking apart | dissection |
| pertaining to old age | geriatric |
| substance that slows or stops the growth of microorganisms | antiseptic |
| a specialized agency of the United Nations that works to ensure the highest possible level of health for all people | World Health Organization |
| the nation's leading public health spokesperson, appointed by the U.S. President and confirmed by the Senate | surgeon general |
| disease that attacks lymph nodes & swells; spread through cold symptoms or fleas on rats; causes buboes | Bubonic plague |
| what 2 things were ancient times people concerned about | prevention from injury from predators & illness/disease caused by supernatural spirits |
| what are the epidemics | Bubonic plague (Black Death) Small pox Diphtheria Syphilis Measles Typhoid Fever Tuberculosis |
| What medical procedures still used today | enemas circumcision closing wounds setting fractures |
| develops when it colonizes lungs; airborne; spreads through breath, cough, and sneezes | pneumonic plague |
| bacteria infects the bloodstream; spreads through bloodstream | septicemic plague |
| two factors that contributed to the spread of plague | lack of personal hygiene/sanitation; close contact |
| how did they try to prevent spread of plague | kill |
| how many people in Asia, Africa, Europe died from the black plague in 15th century | 50 million |
| how many people died in Great Plague of London in 1665 | 100,000 or 1/3 of london population |
| what stopped plague in London | winter snow because plague needed 72 degrees to grow and cleaner streets |
| what could have caused the plague to reoccur | drug resistant strains and globalization |
| what efforts were made to get ride of london plague | killed dogs and cats (not good because didn't kill rats) quarantine the sick (no whole families get sick) Plague doctor come - fake doctor Burning chemicals - worked killed fleas and rats (fumigation) |
| what was renaissance medicine | universities and medical schools for research dissection book publishing |
| what did Greeks do | first to study causes of diseases research to eliminate superstitions sanitary practices were associated with the spread of disease |
| what does greek medicine symbol mean | staff and serpent which is symbol of medicine |
| Aesculapius | is a greek god who temples were built for because first true clinics and hospitals |
| what did romans do | developed sanitation system (aqueducts/sewers/public baths) beginning of public health first to organize medical care army medicine room in doctors (house became 1st hospital) public hygiene (flood control/solid construction house) |
| what were egyptians main thoughts | earliest to keep accurate health records superstitious called upon gods identified certain diseases pharaohs kept many specialists |
| research of mummies shows what | existence of diseases like arthritis, kidney stones, arteriosclerosis |
| facts of egyptians | magicians were also healers believed demons caused disease prescriptions were written on papyrus |
| what did eye of horus evolve into | Rx sign |
| who could read medical knowledge in egyptian medicine | only priests could read from god Thoth |
| what medicines were used in ancient times | morphine from opium poppy (relieves pain) quinine from bark of cinchona tree (treat malaria) digitalis from foxglove plants (slow heart) belladonna and atropine from poisonous nightshade plant (relieves muscle spasms) |
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