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Study cards for medical history for HS1

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What is the Germ Theory and who created it?   Theory that illness and disease come from bacteria Discovered by Louis Pasteur.  
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What is a Retro Virus?   A virus whose RNA converts to DNA attaching to the hosts genes (life long virus)  
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Chemical that stops bacteria whats a example of one?   Bacteriostatic and antibiotics.  
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Chemical that kills bacteria name a example   Bactericidal and penicillin.  
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What is penicillin classified as?   A sulfa drug  
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What is a Oncogene   A cell that can transform another cell into a tumor.  
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Who discovered Xrays?   Wilhelm Roegten in 1810  
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Andreas Vesalius   Dissected human bodies Created one of the first anatomy books in 1538.  
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What was the cause of illness during the dark ages?   It was considered the Gods punishing them.  
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Isolated Radium in 1910   Marie Curie  
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Discovered penicilllin   Alexander Fleming in 1928  
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Father of medicine   Hippocrates  
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Benjamin Franklin   Created bifocals  
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Benjamin Carson   Separated conjoined twins  
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Founded Red Cross   Clara Barton in 1881  
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Edward jenner   Created vaccine for small pox 1796  
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Earliest people to keep medical records   Egyptians  
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Leonardo Da Vinci   Dissected humans body for art purposes  
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Polio vaccine in 1952   Jonas Salk  
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Romans   Began public/health sanitations  
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Used acupuncture as a pain reliever   Chinese  
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First mercury thermometer   Gabriel Fahrenheit  
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Florence Nightingale   Founded modern nursing  
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Joseph Lister   Used disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery  
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What was believed to cure illness during the Dark Ages   A priests prayer  
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Elizabeth Blackwell   First US Physician + started first Women Medical College  
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Microscope (inventor + significance)   Organisms too small for the naked eye were visible 1666 by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek  
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Stethoscope (inventor + significance)   Allowed internal sounds to be heard 1819 by Rene Lannec  
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4 illnesses in the Middle Ages   Small Pox,Bubonic Plague, Malaria, Typhoid  
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Patterns of Heredity   Gregory Mendel  
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William Harvey   Circulation of blood to & from heart  
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Robert Koch   Identified pathogens  
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Arab Physician used animal guts as suture material   Rhazes  
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Karl Lanchesteiner   Identified blood types A,B,AB,O Blood Transfusions  
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William Morton, Horace Wells,Crawford Long   Invented anesthesia  
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First antiboidic   Penicillin  
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Frederick Banting   Created insulin  
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Luk Montagnier, Robert Gallo   Discovered cause of AIDs = HIV  
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What is HIV   A Retro Virus which causes AIDs  
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Micheal Bishop, Harold Varmus   Studied Caner discovering that humans have cancer cells just inactive.  
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What is a Sulfa drug who invented it?   Created by Gerhard Domgak in 1935 antibiotics used to treat bacterial and infections.  
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Dorothea Dix   Created the first mental asylum  
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