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Exam 1 Study Guide: History Flashcards

1
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Ancient Romans added what?

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Public health and sanitation systems

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Invented microscope

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Christian Barnard

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First to successful do a human to human heart transplant (1967)

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Dorothea Dix

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best known for her patient advocacy in fighting to improve the conditions of jails and mental asylums in North America and Europe

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5
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First test tube baby

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July 25, 1978

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Florence Nightingale

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Pioneer of nursing, Crimean War

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Invented the thermometer

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8
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Joseph Priestley

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Discovered oxygen

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9
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Kidney transplant

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1954

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered the role of bacteria in fermation

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Marie Currie

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Discovered radium

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12
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Polio vaccine

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1952 by Jonas Salk

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13
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Rene Laennec

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Inventor of stethoscope

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14
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Robert Koch

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Father of Bacteriology

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15
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Small pox vaccine

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1796 by Edward Jenner

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16
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What did Sigmund Freud add?

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best known for his theory of the unconscious

17
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When was AIDS identified

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1981

18
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Who is Clara Barton

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Founded the American Red Cross

19
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Who is Hippocrates?

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Father of medicine

20
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Who is Joseph Lister?

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Father of antiseptic surgery

21
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Who is Sir Alexander Flemming?

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Invented penicillin

22
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William Harvey

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Described the circulation of blood

23
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William Roentgen

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Discovered x rays

24
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Birth control pills

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FDA approved in 1960

25
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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First woman doctor

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