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History Of Health Flashcards

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Ancient Egyptians

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Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records

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Primitive times

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They believed in supernatural spirits and demons. They exercised it

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Ancient Chinese

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First to use acupuncture therapies. Learned to treat diseases with stone tools

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Ancient Greeks

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Created modern medical science

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Hippocrates

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Father medicine. Wrote the standard of ethics

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Aristotle

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Dissected animals. Founder of comparative anatomy

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Ancient Romans

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First to organize medical care by providing care for injured soldiers

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Claudius glalen

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Established many medical beliefs

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Dark ages

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Monks and priests were carers for sick.

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Middle Ages

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The bubonic plague

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Renaissance

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Medical schools and universities were built.

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body

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Andreas Vesalius

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First anatomy book

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William Harvey

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Described circulation of blood

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Invented microscope

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Gabriel Fallopius

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Fallopian tubes in female

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Bartolommeo eustachio

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Eustachian tube

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Apothecaries

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Sold medications

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First female physician

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Joseph Priestley

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Discovered element oxygen

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Benjamin Franklin

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Invented bifocals

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Rene lannec

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Invented stethoscope

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Clara Barton

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American Red Cross

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Louis Pasteur

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Father of microbiology

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Ernest Von Bergman

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Asepsis

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Wilhelm roentgen

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Discovered x rays

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychology and psychiatry

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Sir Alexander Fleming

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Discovered penicillin

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