facts to know for mocks - med Flashcards
Islam
How did islam help to improve medicine?
translated medical books, used clinical observation, set up hospitals, good hygiene
Islam
How did islam hinder medicine?
banned dissection, prayed to allah as a cure
Islam
What did Ibn al-Nafis discover?
How blood was circulated around the body
Islam
What did Rhazes discover?
The difference between smallpox and measles
Germ Theory
What was Pasteur the first to do?
Hypothesise that disease and germs were linked
Germ Theory
What did Pasteur’s initial research do?
he argued that micro organisms cause disease, and he developed a vaccine for rabies based on chicken cholera
Germ Theory
What is Pasteurisation?
Heating liquids to kill germs
Germ Theory
What did Koch discover?
a way of staining bacteria to make it visible under a microscope
Germ Theory
What germ did Koch discover?
The bacillus germ which caused diphtheria and a serum to treat it
Germ Theory
What did Erlich discover?
A treatment for syphilis, magic billets (drugs to target a specific germ)
Antibiotics
How did fleming discover penicillin in 1928?
By chance. He found it one one of his petri dishes he had left. It killed the germ inside
Antibiotics
What didn’t Fleming do in his tests?
Didn’t inject penicillin into the blood stream
Antibiotics
Who developed the work of Fleming?
Florey and Chain who started to experiment on mice and humans in 1941.
Antibiotics
Describe Penicillin use in ww2
By 1945 250,000 soldiers were helped
Antibiotics
Three other antibiotics produced after Penicillin?
Streptomycin for TB, Tetracycline for skin infections, Mitomycin for cancer
18th Cent Meds
What was Chunchona used for?
used for malaria treatment
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What was Opium used for?
strong painkiller
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Tobacco
Regarded as a way to keep away the plague
Quackery
What was Daffy’s Elixir?
- Claimed to cure convulsion fits, Malaria, Worms and Gout
- Composed of: Brandy, aniseed, Raisins, Fennel seeds
- Impact at time: Laxative, Nothing else
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Who was Lady Johanna St. John?
a typical local lady of the manor, had a recipe book of cures including cure for nose bleeding
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Who was Culpeper?
- published “complete herbal”
- treated people for free
- combined herbs with doctorine of signatures and astrology
