Class #1 and 2 -history Flashcards
Morphine also called
Laudanum
One of the first physician act?
Urine analysis
Bright yellow urine =
Excessive B12
White urine =
INfection
Brown urine =
Liver problem
Pink urine =
Food or bleeding
Life expectancy at the en of 1800s?
~47
CAUSE of reduce maternal mortality?
Penicillin during WW2
Canada life expectancy (2015)
Men 81
Women 85
Olderst human?
Jeanne Clment, 122 in france
- Life span vs
2. Life expectancy?
- Longest determined age (canada 117)
2. Statistical average an organism is expected to live based on: current age, sex, etc
1918-1919 what happened?
Flu, spanish influenza, grip.
30-50 millions death
How influenza kills?
Bacterial pneumonia b/c virus destroyed bronchial cells and bacteria invade the lungs.
Number of compound in urineÉ
147
Summerians had?
16 different beer recipes
Hippocrates successful cure (2)?
Night blindness with Ox(bovine) Liver, b/c contains a lot of vit.A and Crying babies: Poppy juice and flies excrements.
Dioscorides major work?
De Meteria Medica: Tome about plants.
Wormwood was used in? discovered by? Also discovered
Absinthe
Dioscorides
Saffron -> diuretic -> Passum
Pharmakon=
drug
Paracelcus invented? How?
ether as an anesthetic agent. Treating alcohol with acids