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Causes of Disease Flashcards

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General Roman (3 things)

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Supernatural (Gods, Curses, Planets, Punishments)

Hippocrates & Galen: 4 humours and Theory of Opposites

Natural (Miasma)

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General Medieval (4 things)

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Supernatural (Curse, Planets, Devil)

Galen still approved of

Natural: 4 humours (imbalance)

Black Death (Unaware that rats carried it)

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General Renaissance (4 things)

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Reluctance to change (4 humours still believed)

Vesalius (Human Anatomy, jaw, breast, prove Galen wrong)

Harvey (Blood circulation)

Little change to treatments but understanding increased

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General Industrial (Chain if 4 discoveries)

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Spontaneous Generation

Pasteurs Germ Theory

Koch: Specific microbes cause specific disease

New bacteria discovered

All helped develop vaccinations

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General Modern (5)

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Genetics (DNA analysed , double helix discovery)
Human Genome Project (Gene identification)

Behring:Antitoxins isolated
Ehrlich: Magic bullets
Domagk: Developed Prontosil

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What are the 4 humours?

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Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile

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What did Vesalius discover (Renaissance)?

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Disproved Galen, discovered the human jaw bone had only 1 bone and the breast bone had 3 not 7

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When was Pasteur’s Germ Theory written and when was it published?

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Written: 1861
Published:1864

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What vaccines did Pasteur develop?

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Chicken Cholera
Anthrax
Rabies

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What vaccines did Koch develop?

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Anthrax
TB
Cholera

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What year did Koch discover TB bacteria? & What year did Koch discover Cholera bacteria

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TB: 1882
Cholera: 1883

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What theory/theories dis Pasteur’s germ Theory disprove?

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Miasma, Spontaneous Generation

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When was the double helix discovered (Modern)?

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1953

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When was the Human Genome project?

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1990’s

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Who were the 3 Germans (Modern)?

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Behring
Ehrlich
Domagk

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What did Behring do?

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Isolated antitoxins

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What did Ehrlich do?

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Developed the first magic bullet

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What was the name of the first magic bullet?

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Salvarsan 606

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What did Domagk do?

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Developed the second magic bullet

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What key ingredient did the second magic bullet contain?

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Prontosil

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What other diseases did Domagk’s work help cure?

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Meningitis, Pneumonia

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