Historical Perspectives Flashcards

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1
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Believed living organisms came from non-living things

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Aristotle

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2
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First to observe bacteria

Used a magnification of ___

Coined animalcules

Father of Bacteriology, Protozoology, Microbiology

A

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

50-300x

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3
Q

Coined Germ or Seed

A

Roger Bacon

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4
Q

Manufactured Beer

Prepared Wine

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Babylonians

Assyrians

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5
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First to make butter

First to make bread

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Sumerians

Egyptians

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6
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Sanitary laws and quarantine of lepers in the bible

Bury solid waste said Moses

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Leviticus 13-15

Deuteronomy 23

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7
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Realized that diseases could be transferred through clothing/objects

Set ethical standards for medical practice

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Hippocrates

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8
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Observed people who already got sick from plague are fine to exposure

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Thucydides

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9
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Romans contributions:

Tiny animals entered through mouth and nose

“Seeds” of disease

A

Varro

Lucretius

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10
Q

People who supported Abiogenesis (3)

Life originated from non living matter as imperfect forms

Living forms are animated forms of non-living matter

Oceanic water was the mother from all living organisms

A

Empedocles

Aristotle

Thales

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11
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Black plague was caused by what?

A

Yersinia pestis

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12
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Suggested invisible organisms may cause disease a ____

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Girolamo Fracastoro

Contagion

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13
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Microscopic worms in blood of victims observed

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Athanasius Kircher

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14
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Found that the smallest units were “cells”

Used a compound microscope by ___

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Robert Hooke

Zacharias Janssen

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