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History of Medicine chapters 6- 10

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What does the prefix 'micro' means?   small  
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What language did Leeuwenhoek write about his discoveries?   Dutch  
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Why did Leeuwenhoek make 550 microscopes?   He wanted to look at every different thing through a different perspective. He made a different microscope for everything.  
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What did those who survived smallpox have on their skin?   Sores and miserable pockmarks  
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What did the milkmaid believe about those who had cowpox?   They couldn't get smallpox because their bodies became immune to it.  
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What does 'vacca' (Latin) mean?   cow  
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In the 1800s, how was the skill of the surgeon judged by?   How quickly they worked  
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What are the two most common gases in the earth's atmosphere?   Oxygen and nitrogen  
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What does 'pneumatic' mean?   air  
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Chloroform does not _________ and smells __________   Chloroform does not 'explode' and smells 'like nothing'  
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What did William Morton want to learn from medical school?   a cure for pain  
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Who did William Morton try ether first on?   On his dog  
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Who was the first person to use ether in surgery?   Dr. Charles Jackson  
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What does the word 'anesthetic' mean?   No feeling in Greek  
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Why did Semmelweiss decide to study medicine?   To save lives  
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What did Hospital Director Johann Klein urge Semmelweiss to do?   save money  
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At the Vienna Maternity Hospital, Which of the wards had the lowest death rates?   The midwives' ward  
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After Semmelweiss left Austria, Why did the death rates go up?   The doctors stopped washing their hands  
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(The rest is matching on the actual test) _____________ wrote a poem about Leeuwenhoek's discoveries.   Jonathon Swift  
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_____________ said, "Shut your doors against your friends."   The town leader when the Black Death struck  
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_____________ referred to God as the Maker of the Great All   Leeuwenhoek  
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_____________ said, "It's a silly superstition"   Dr. Daniel Ludlow  
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_____________ said, "We suffer from disease while he plays with a useless hobby!"   The local people  
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_____________ said, "I know there is no way to prevent the disease (smallpox)."   The head doctor at London Smallpox Hospital  
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_____________ ordered his soldiers to be vaccinated   Napoleon  
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_____________ said, "We beseech the Great Spirit to take care of you."   The chiefs of the Five Indian Nations in Canada  
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_____________ said, "I was wrong. The little animals do exist."   Christian Huygens  
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_____________ invented the printing press   Gutenberg  
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_____________ was the first person to be vaccinated against smallpox   James Phipp  
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