History - medicine Flashcards
Who is Vesalius?
A medieval physician
A Greek/Roman docWho was Galen?
A Greek/Roman doctor
What did Vesalius do?
Dissect bodies from graves and view the human anatomy
what did Harvey do?
Who was Harvey?
A medieval physician who worked on the heart, veins and arteries
Who was Pare?
A medieval physician who worked on gunshot wounds
What did Pare do?
Made an ointment to treat gunshot wounds and made prosthetics
What is penicillin referred as?
The Magic Bullet
When was the germ theory created?
1861
How did John Snow help with Chloroform?
He made a mask to control dosage
What did Louis Pasteur do?
Created the germ theory and tested his theory 4 separate times
What did Marie Curie do?
discovered polonium and radium, championed the use of radiation in medicine and fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity
Name the 4 humours
black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood
what did Jenner do?
discovered a vaccination for smallpox
Who accidentally discovered penicillin?
