history of medicine

Question 1

medicine in primitive times consisted of:

Answer 1

witch doctors, herbs and plants, and trepanning

Question 2

medicine in Egyptian times consisted of:

Answer 2

mummification, prosthetics,

Question 3

what group of people were the earliest to keep health records?

Answer 3

Egyptians

Question 4

what did the physician imhotep do?

Answer 4

identified diseases and used medicine to heal diseases.

Question 5

what did the medical status of the chinese consist of?

Answer 5

yin and yang, the five elements, teas, acupuncture.

Question 6

who was the greek hippocrates called?

Answer 6

“Father of Medicine”

Question 7

Why is the greek man hippocrates important?

Answer 7

the hippocratic oath and “code of ethics”

Question 8

why is Alcomeon inportant?

Answer 8

first to study the nervous system and senses.

Question 9

what did greek aristotle do?

Answer 9

Comparative anatomy (dissected animals to learn about humans)

Question 10

roman medicine consisted of:

Answer 10

sending medical care to the military, early hospitals to contain diseases, developed sanitation system and public health.

Question 11

what makes Claudius Galen important?

Answer 11

Comparative anatomy, used a pulse as a diagnostic tool, and used blood letting as a treatment.

Question 12

lots of diseases were common and deadly during:

Answer 12

the dark and middle ages

Question 13

what diseases were common during the dark and middle ages?

Answer 13

plague, small pox, leprosy, typhoid

Question 14

where was medicine practiced during the dark and middle ages?

Answer 14

monasteries and convents

Question 15

what medical things did the arabs do to advance medicine during the dark and middle ages?

Answer 15

made doctors pass a test, and separated doctors and pharmacists.

Question 16

what did Andreas Vesalius write?

Answer 16

the first widespread anatomy book

Question 17

what did leonardo da vinci do?

Answer 17

performed and documented human dissection

Question 18

what did william harvey do?

Answer 18

documented the circulation of blood

Question 19

why was the invention of the printing press a good thing?

Answer 19

allowed anatomy books to be dispersed to a wide audience

Question 20

during the 16th and 17th century, what society was formed?

Answer 20

the royal society which was the first medial library where physicians could find info

Question 21

during the 16th and 17th century, what did antony van leeuwenhoek invent?

Answer 21

the microscope and studied bacteria

Question 22

during the 16th and 17 century, what were the “beginning of our current pharmacies”?

Answer 22

apothecaries

Question 23

what did benjamin franklin do during the 18th century?

Answer 23

he invented bifocals and “the reacher”

Question 24

what did edward jenner discover during the 28th century?

Answer 24

the small pox vaccine

Question 25

what did gabriel fahrenheit invent during the 28th century?

Answer 25

the mercury thermometer

Question 26

where is rene leanec from and what did he invent? what time period was he in?

Answer 26

france, the stethoscope. 19th century to now

Question 27

where is johannes purkinje from and what did he discover?

Answer 27

from bohemia, discovered neurons, sweat glands, and purkinje fibers of the heart

Question 28

where is joseph lister from and what did he do?

Answer 28

from england, and the first doctor to use antiseptic during an operation to prevent infection

Question 29

where is ignas semmekweiss from and what did he do?

Answer 29

from Hungary, specialized in childbirth and realized the cause of childhood fever. instituted handwashing between doing dissections and delivering babies.

Question 30

Elizabeth blackwell:

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from NY, 1st female to graduate med school, established clinic for poor women and children.

Question 31

Elizabeth nightingale:

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from england/france, “lady of the lamp”, started the first nursing school and made nursing a honorable profession.

Question 32

Louis Pasteur:

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from france, discovered pasteurization and why it is important and needed.

Question 33

Robert Koch:

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from germany, “father of microbiology” linked bacteria to specific diseases working with Anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera

Question 34

Clara Barton:

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from massachusetts, established the red cross bc she believed that not only the injured or ill person need care but also the family surrounding the patient

Question 35

Sigmund Freud:

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from austria, known as the father of phycology, the idea of phychoanalysis and the conscious vs unconscious mind is from his research

Question 36

Wilhelm Roetgen:

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from germany, while working with cathode rays he discovered x rays, later died from radiation poisoning

Question 37

Karl Landsteiner:

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from austria, the first to discover the different blood types (AOB groups)

Question 38

Marie curie:

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from france/poland, first woman to receive a Nobel Prize(2 actually) for her discovery of isolated radium. was more famous than her scientist husband, died from radiation poisoning

Question 39

Banting/Best

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from canada, learned that insulin is produced in the pancreas and if reintroduced could save a life, 14 yo boy was saved for the first time due to their discoveries

Question 40

Alexander fleming:

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from scotland, received a Nobel prize for discovering penicillin in the mold of a petri dish and making into an antibiotic

Question 41

George Papanicolaou:

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born in greece lived in NY, invented a way to test cervical cells in women to test them for cervical cancer and STI’s

Question 42

John Gibbon:

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from pennysilvania, created the heart/lung machine that allows doctors to stop a heart during surgery and still be able to circulate blood for the patient

Question 43

Joseph Murray:

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from Massachusetts, performed the first successful kidney transplant from one twin to another

Question 44

Jonas Salk

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from pennsylvania, used a dead form of the polio virus as a vaccine against the disease, saved millions

Question 45

Edward’s/Steptoe:

Answer 45

from US/England, although continents away developed the in vitro fertilization. first baby conceived in this manner was Louise Brown in England

Question 46

Christian Bernard:

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from south africa, was the first physician to perform a heart transplant and was motivated by the death of his brother

Question 47

Raymond Damadian

Answer 47

born in NY, invented the MRI