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facts to know for mocks - med Flashcards

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Islam

How did islam help to improve medicine?

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translated medical books, used clinical observation, set up hospitals, good hygiene

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Islam

How did islam hinder medicine?

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banned dissection, prayed to allah as a cure

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Islam

What did Ibn al-Nafis discover?

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How blood was circulated around the body

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Islam

What did Rhazes discover?

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The difference between smallpox and measles

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Germ Theory

What was Pasteur the first to do?

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Hypothesise that disease and germs were linked

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Germ Theory

What did Pasteur’s initial research do?

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he argued that micro organisms cause disease, and he developed a vaccine for rabies based on chicken cholera

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Germ Theory

What is Pasteurisation?

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Heating liquids to kill germs

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Germ Theory

What did Koch discover?

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a way of staining bacteria to make it visible under a microscope

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Germ Theory

What germ did Koch discover?

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The bacillus germ which caused diphtheria and a serum to treat it

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Germ Theory

What did Erlich discover?

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A treatment for syphilis, magic billets (drugs to target a specific germ)

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Antibiotics

How did fleming discover penicillin in 1928?

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By chance. He found it one one of his petri dishes he had left. It killed the germ inside

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Antibiotics

What didn’t Fleming do in his tests?

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Didn’t inject penicillin into the blood stream

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Antibiotics

Who developed the work of Fleming?

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Florey and Chain who started to experiment on mice and humans in 1941.

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Antibiotics

Describe Penicillin use in ww2

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By 1945 250,000 soldiers were helped

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Antibiotics

Three other antibiotics produced after Penicillin?

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Streptomycin for TB, Tetracycline for skin infections, Mitomycin for cancer

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18th Cent Meds

What was Chunchona used for?

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used for malaria treatment

17
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18th Cent Meds

What was Opium used for?

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strong painkiller

18
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18th Cent Meds

Tobacco

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Regarded as a way to keep away the plague

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Quackery

What was Daffy’s Elixir?

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  • 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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18th Cent Meds

Who was Lady Johanna St. John?

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a typical local lady of the manor, had a recipe book of cures including cure for nose bleeding

21
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18th Cent Meds

Who was Culpeper?

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  • published “complete herbal”
  • treated people for free
  • combined herbs with doctorine of signatures and astrology

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