Hx Of Healthcare Test Flashcards
Benjamin Franklin
Realized colds could be transferred from one person to other
Jonas Salk
Discovered polio vaccine using dead polio virus
Priestly
Discovered the element of oxygen
Landsteiner
Developed blood typing technique
What was the term given to soldiers returning home with serious psychiatric conditions?
Shell shock or PTSD
What type of insurance provides prepaid healthcare at a flat or fixed rate?
HMO
Who was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart?
William Harvey
What was illness believed to be caused by in the early ages?
Supernatural spirts
Digitalis
From the foxglove plant. Used to slow the heartbeat
Quinine
From the bark of cinchona tree. Controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, prevents malaria
Egyptians
The earliest people to keep accurate health records. Learned the art of splinting fractures.
Greeks
First to study the causes of disease. Discovered that some disease is caused by the lack of sanitation. No autopsies allowed.
Romans
Learned from Greeks and developed a sanitation systems. Brought clean water, built sewers, etc. The beginning of public health and sanitation, hospitals.
First to organize medical care.
Wore death masks.
Bubonic Plague
(The Black Death) killed 60 million people
(The Dark and Middle Ages)
Period of rebirth of learning
Med schools and universities were developed
The acceptance of dissection
Printing press developed
Quackery, mass death from childbed fever and disease continued
The Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
William Harvey
Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope
Established that there is life smaller than the eye can see