CHEM FINAL (FIGURES) Flashcards
He drew accurate drawings of the heart, on which novel surgical techniques were based
Leonardo da Vinci
First to consider the circulatory system (i.e. the heart pumps blood around the body)
William Harvey
An MTL Canadiens, has juvenile diabetes and celiac disease;
He uses a device called Contour Next
Max Domi
Doctor who performed the first heart transplant
Dr. Barnard
Patient who received the first heart transplant
Louis Washkansky
French patient lived for 1,250 days with an artificial heart
Frederic Thiollet
Historical figure who most likely had many hormonal problems
Goliath
English physician who found that castrating roosters led to the shrinking of their combs
John Hunter
Found that roosters showed normal sexual behaviour and the comb developed normally when a testicle was returned into the body cavity
Arnold Berthold
Found that people who had atrophied adrenal glands had poor appetite, low blood pressure, weakness, anemia, and bronzed skin
Thomas Addison
He observed that when male dogs are castrated, there are changes in their character
Charles Brown-Sequard
Implanted the testes of executed criminals into the scrota of men complained about no longer feeling youthful;
Started an ape farm
Serge Voronoff
He wrote “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” to mock this kind of research
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He bought a medical degree;
Used goat glands for his transplants
John Romulus Brinkley
He wondered how your body knew when you had eaten (when to secrete pancreatic juices)
Dolanski
Found that pancreatic juices were secreted normally when nerves were cut;
injected ground duodenum into the jugular vein of the dog
Ernest Starling
A man and a woman who suffered from gigantism
Sandy Allen and Robert Wadlow
A man who suffered from acromegaly
Andre the Giant
A man who suffered from underproduction of GH;
Worked in P. T. Barnum’s circus
General Tom Thumb
He discovered lots about the adrenal glands; The disease (underproduction by the adrenal glands) is named after him
Thomas Addison
He discovered the negative effects of too much corticosteroids in the body;
Syndrome named after him (moon face, etc,)
Harvey Cushing
He wrote on a cretinoid state, a genetic condition where one produces too little TH, which leads to all sorts of physiological problems
Dr. William Gull
These three extracted insulin from pigs at UofT
Banting, Best, and MacLeod
He underwent chemical castration
Alan Turing
Two incredible athletes caught taking steroids
Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong
He found a yam species that contained diosgenin, which could be converted into progesterone
Russell Marker
Developed loadstone/magnet treatments (called mesmerism);
The first practitioner of alternative medicine
Anton Mesmer
Three men on the committee investigation Anton Mesmer
Benjamin Franklin, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, and Anton Lavoisier
He was the first to suggest ulcers were caused by bacteria;
He and another won the Nobel Prize for this
Dr. Barry Marshall;
Dr. Robin Warren
Properly trained physician, but offers herbalist treatments (e.g. stinging nettle)
Dr. Andrew Weil
Properly trained physician, but sells “miracles of the day” (e.g. raspberry ketone)
Dr. Oz
She claims she can talk to the dead
Theresa Caputo
She had to give up her license after treating an autistic child with the saliva of a rabid dog
“Dr.” Anke Zimmerman
He wrote “Natural Cures”;
Only person in US history to have been banned from TV;
He was prosecuted and jailed for his last book
Kevin Trudeau
She claims cancer is caused by a parasite that escapes from the liver;
She sells the Zap Away cure-all
Hulda Clark
A nurse who claimed touching parts of the body has a healing effect (i.e. therapeutic touch)
Dolores Krieger
A schoolgirl who tested therapeutic touch practitioners and found it amounted to guesswork
Emily Rosa
A tapping expert
Nick Ortner
He invented homeopathy
Samuel Hahnemann
He found that Cinchona did not in fact trigger malaria symptoms
Professor Hopff
He somehow showed that a homeopathic solution had an effect;
His work could not be reproduced;
He started a scam of a company called Digibio
Jacques Benveniste
A magician and debunker;
He was part of the committee that investigated Benveniste’s work
James Randi
Physician who claims to have isolated a chemical from urine called neoplastons that cures cancer
Razinsky
She had her butt injected with silicone and died
Latesha Bynum
She was arraigned on a manslaughter charge;
She injected Latesha Bynum with silicone
Allison Spence
He had meningitis and died after being “treated” by a naturopath
Ezekiel Stephan
He was treated with laetrile (apricot extract)
Steve McQueen
He “treats” breast cancer patients by putting scissors in their nose
“John of God”
He invented the EPFX-SCIO, a large device that “cures cancer”;
He sells it to cancer victims for $70,000
William Nelson
She claims to have treated her benign cancer with Iscador
Suzanne Somers
A model who stoped her chemotherapy
Michaela Jakubczyk-Eckert
He convinced Michaela Jakubczyk-Eckert to stoper her chemo.
Ryke Geerd Hamer
He conducted lobotomies with not evidence of efficacy
Dr. Waler Freeman
He miscalculated the iron content in spinach
Erich von Wolf
They flew on December 17, 1903
The Wright Brothers
He got a pilotless steam plane to fly 7 years before the Wrights
Samuel Langley
He used a non-powered glider in impressive ways
Otto Lillienthal
Debunked claim that he was actually the first to fly
Gustave Whitehead
He first discovered DNA in the nuclei of white blood cells
Frederich Miescher
He published a paper in 1944, explaining DNA is the key to all of genetics
Oswald Avery
Based on Avery’s work, he proposed an incorrect structure for DNA
Linus Pauling
These two are the ones who figured out the actual structure of DNA
Watson and Crick
She was the one who captured the x-rays showing the double helix structure
Rosalind Franklin
He was Franklin’s supervisor;
He also won that Nobel prize
Maurice Wilkins
His complicated cycle was originally rejected in 1937
Sir Hans dolf Krebs
He coined “Theory of Relativity”
Max Planck
He is an ex-professor at Cornell;
He lost his job after 15 of his papers were retracted (charged guilty of academic misconduct)
Brian Wansack
He conducted a 2009 meta-analysis to find out how common academic misconduct is
Daniele Fanelli
His infamous study in which he claimed the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine were associated with autism
Andrew Wakefield
Time article quoted her saying: “as for butter vs. margarine, I trust cows more than chemists”
Dr. Joan Gussow
She wrote Dr. Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was influenced by a presentation by him;
He would shoot an electric current through a frog leg
Luigi Galvani
She became very popular online with pseudoscience like “are you eating your yoga mat?”
The Food Babe
He claimed aliens bestowed healing powers upon him;
He probably used a device that can produce static electricity
Ze’ev Kolman
He carried out the first clinical trial (the efficacy of the Bezoar stone) at the behest of King Charles IX of France
Ambroise Pare
He carried out the first documented clinical trial, measuring the effect of citrus fruits on scurvy
James Lind
He carried out an early clinical trial on the efficacy of foxglove
William Withering
He discovered penicillin by accident
Alexander Fleming
These two were able to isolate penicillin
Ernst Chain and Howard Florey
He suffered from an ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency;
He developed a cytokine storm reaction to the treatment, and died
Jesse Gelsinger
Also suffered from a buildup of ammonia in the blood, but was able to be treated properly
Emily Whitehead
