Early Medicine Flashcards
What is scientific medicine?
Relates to the healing the body of illness and disease.
When do we think that Modern Scientific Medicine started?
During the Renaissance.
Who was Hippocrates?
A famous Greek doctor born over 2500 years ago. He looks for physical explanations for illnesses.
In Modern Scientific Medicine what do doctors do?
Find out what is know about the illness
Think about how this illness might happen
Experiment to see if their idea or theory is correct.
Who is known as the Father of Western Medicine?
Hippocrates.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
A special promise that doctors make to use their knowledge only for healing and helping people.
What do we call diseases that can be easily spread from one to another?
Infectious diseases/communical diseases.
What is quarantine?
When you are isolated from everyone else to stop a disease from spreading.
What is smallpox?
An infectious disease that was spread by touch. You get terrible sores and blisters. You can die, or you are left with terrible scars.
What does vaccination mean?
Latin word for cow - vacca.
We infect the body with a small amount of germs from a certain disease and the body will make antibodies against that disease.
Who is Edward Jenner?
A scientifically trained doctor who invented the first Vaccination - for Smallpox. He used the cowpox virus to vaccinate against smallpox.
What are germs?
Micro organisms which can cause disease.
What happened when microscopes were developed?
People could see the connection between disease and infection.
What did Louis Pasteur study/investigate?
Why food went rotten.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
A French scientist.
