FINAL Flashcards
During the Baroque a philosophical current contrary to Descartes rationalism developed, where it is emphasized that experimentation is a process of knowledge development:
Empirism
First Mexican Medical Woman (1873):
Matilde Montoya
Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, made several contributions to medicine. Chose which of the following discoveries are attributed to him:
Created the rabies vaccine
Smallpox was controlled thanks to vaccination efforts. Who started the vaccine studies in England?
Edward Jenner
You are in a XVIII century university and you go to a class where the teacher is explaining that breathing basically consists of oxygen consumption and the elimination of carbon dioxide in a certain proportion. That person is most likely:
Antoine Lavoisier
Xavier Balmis is the responsable of the Variolization campaign in spanish territories:
True
Paris University was dedicated to the following saints:
Saint Cosmas and Damian
He is considered to be the modern “father of surgery”:
Ambrosio Paré
The first succesful solid organ transplant performed on humanity was:
Kidney
Humanis Corporis Fabrica is one of the biggest books ever written about physiology:
False, it was about anatomy
During the 19th century the concept of social medicine began in Germany, led by the doctor who said “Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale”, said doctor was:
Rudolph Ludwig Karl Virchow
Louis Pasteur was the first to establish the spread (and control) of puerperal fever and suggested handwashing:
False
Father of the iatrochemical current that publicity burned the works of Galen and Avicenna, considering them unworthy of medical knowledge:
Paracelsus
Leonardo Da Vinci has anatomical descriptions just as accurate as Andreas Vesalius:
True
After the conquest of the great Tenochtitlan, the Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco school was asked to carry out an herbarium describing the remedies carried out by the Mexican physicians. This important task was entrusted to:
Martin de la Cruz and Juan Badiano
Why are the figures of Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei important for medicine? Choose the correct option:
They laid the foundation of iatrophysics
You find yourself walking as a doctor through the streets of Florence in the 16th century. A person consults you because he has non-painful ulcers on his genitals. His collegagues recommended that he put on mercury plasters. What disease does this patient suffer from?
Syphillis
Naval physician was famous for conducting the “first epidemiological study in medicine” studying cholera in London:
John Snow
English anatomist, physiologist, empiricist scientist from the 18th century, initiator of experimental surgery:
John Hunter
Philosophical current that states that the only knowledge is the one that is created by the scientific method:
Empirism
