CCP study guide Flashcards
who treated the poor?
healers
The collection of medical writings in ancient egypt was?
papyri
Most physicians were also?
Priest
What are 3 things Priest used in the treatment of sickness?
Plants, mineral, animal products
Physicians used what 6 things during surgery?
Knives, bone saws, scales, lances, mallots, chisels.
Before you became a physician you had to become a?
Scribe because you had to know how to read and write.
What are the collection of judgements that set the standard of care?
The hammurabi
What was the moral code to do what is right, just, and fair?
Ethics
What was the 1st documents to outline patients rights?
hammurabi
Who was the 1st people to tie health and lifestyle together?
Greeks
Who was the famous scribe that wrote about the greek healing houses?
Homer
Who was the most famous physician from ancient greece?
Hipocrates
What are the 4 bodily fluids?
black veil, yellow veil, blood, and phlegm
Father of meds?
Hipocrates
What did harvey do?
He changed the understanding of how the circulatory works.
What did hooke do?
He made a machine that mimiced respiration called the air pump.
What is boyle’s law?
The relationship between pressure and gas volume.
Hooke and Anton van are both known for what?
Microscope
What is considered the most important invention that aided doctor’s in meds?
Stethoscope
What was used to listen to the women’s heart and lungs?
Stethoscope
Who made thermometers possible?
Santorio and Galilei
What makes a buoyancy thermometer?
Made of a glass cylinder with a small container filled with different materials that change buoyancy with changes in temperature.
Whose thermometer was a buoyancy thermometer?
Galileo
Whose thermometer had numbers?
Santorio
When a large number of people get sick, it’s called what?
Epidemic
What disease caused about 400,000 deaths a year in europe in the 18th century?
Smallpox
What did Edward Jenner do?
Wiped out smallpox
What were the two diseases on ships?
Scurvy and typhoid
What was scurvy?
Red gums, loose teeth, and became very weak.
What were the 5 groups given on the ship as an experiment?
- Cider, 2. Elixir that contained sulfuric acid, 3. Vinegar, 4. Lemons and oranges, 5. Barley water
What did John Hunter invent?
Tracheotomy
What did Jean Louis Petit develop?
A double screw tourniquet system
