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History Of Health Care Flashcards

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Razes

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Made suturing material

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Michelangelo & Da Vinci

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Studied anatomy, anatomic art

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William Harvey

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Described systemic circulation

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Microscope

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Thermometer

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Ben Franklin

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Bifocal glasses, 1st American med school

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Edward Jenner

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Small pox immunization

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Rene Laennec

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Stethoscope

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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1st woman to receive medical degree

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Florence Nightengale

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Founder of modern nursing

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Joseph Lister

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Cleanliness in surgery

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Clara Barton

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Founded the American Red Cross

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Robert Koch

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Bacteriology

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered microorganisms, pasteurization

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Gregory Mendel

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Founder of genetics

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Dimitri Ivanofski

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1st to discover viruses

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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X-ray generator

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Marie Currie

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Radioactivity

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Sigmund Freud

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Psychology theories

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Alexander Flemming

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Discovered penicillin

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Watson & Crick

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Rosalind Franklin

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Double helix DNA structure

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Ancient times

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  • illness caused by evil spirits/demons
  • Egyptians kept accurate health records
  • Chinese believed in holistic curing
  • Greeks studied cause of disease
  • Romans connected poor sanitation to disease
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Dark Ages

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  • life and death in Gods hands
  • epidemics
  • medicine only practices in convents and monasteries
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Middle Ages

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  • Arabs develop pharmacology

* physicians are required to pass exams and get license

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Renaissance

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  • human dissection

* limited to anatomy, cause of disease still unknown

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16th, 17th, 18th

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  • study of how human body works
  • prescribe medicines
  • microscope
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18th, 19th

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  • stethoscope

* formal training for nurses

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19th

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  • proved microorganisms cause disease

* disinfectants

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20th

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•rapid growth in understanding of health care
•health insurance and standards of care
>kidney dialysis, organ transplant, artificial heart, animal cloning

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21st

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  • human stem cells
  • human genome sequence
  • totally implantable artificial heart
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Hippocrates

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Father of medicine

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