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Hx Of Healthcare Test Flashcards

1
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Benjamin Franklin

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Realized colds could be transferred from one person to other

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Jonas Salk

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Discovered polio vaccine using dead polio virus

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Priestly

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Discovered the element of oxygen

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Landsteiner

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Developed blood typing technique

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5
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What was the term given to soldiers returning home with serious psychiatric conditions?

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Shell shock or PTSD

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6
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What type of insurance provides prepaid healthcare at a flat or fixed rate?

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HMO

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Who was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart?

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William Harvey

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What was illness believed to be caused by in the early ages?

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Supernatural spirts

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9
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Digitalis

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From the foxglove plant. Used to slow the heartbeat

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Quinine

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From the bark of cinchona tree. Controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, prevents malaria

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Egyptians

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The earliest people to keep accurate health records. Learned the art of splinting fractures.

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Greeks

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First to study the causes of disease. Discovered that some disease is caused by the lack of sanitation. No autopsies allowed.

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Romans

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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.

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14
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Bubonic Plague

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(The Black Death) killed 60 million people
(The Dark and Middle Ages)

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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

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The Renaissance

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body

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William Harvey

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Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

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Invented the microscope
Established that there is life smaller than the eye can see

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Bariele Fallopius

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Discovered a tube leading from the ovary to uterus (Fallopian Tubes)

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Bartolommeo Eustachio

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Discovered a tube leading from the ear to the throat (eustachian tube)

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Rene Laennec

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Invented the stethoscope

22
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Joseph Priestley

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Discovered the element that of oxygen

23
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Benjamin Franklin

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Discovered urinary catheter

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Edward Jenner

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Discovered vaccine for smallpox

25
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Nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform

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Drugs to put people into a deep sleep

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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Identified childbed fever

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered the tiny microbes were everywhere

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Joseph Lister

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Used carbolic acid on wounds and surgical instruments to kill germs. Significantly decreased the infection rate.

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Ernest von Bergmann

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Developed aseptic

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Dmitri Ivanovski

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Discovered that some diseases are caused by viruses that can’t be seen with a microscope (microorganisms)

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Sigmund Freud

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Discovered two conscious and unconscious mind. Mind and body work together. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry.

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Koch

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Father of microbiology
Discovered anthrax disease and the bacteria for tuberculosis and cholera
Received Nobel Peace Prize

33
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Roentgen

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Discovered x-rays
Won first Nobel Peace Prize in physics for his discovery

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Paul Ehrlich

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Found treatment for syphilis on the 606th experiment
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease

35
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Alexander Fleming

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Found the penicillin

36
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Jonas Salk

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Discovered that a vaccine for polio

37
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Florence Nightingale

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Raised standards of nursing and well educated to her school

38
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Clara Barton

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Volunteer nurse in the civil war
Founded the Red Cross

39
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Hippocrates

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Oath of Hippocrates
Father of western medicine

40
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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First woman to get her medical degree MD in the USA

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Hooke

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Gave cell its name

42
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Mendel

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Father of genetics

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Watson and Crick

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Discovered structure of DNA

44
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Gerhard Domagk

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First available antibiotics (Prontosil) used to treat streptococcus

45
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Marie and Pierre Currie

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Radium was discovered by them
Developed radiation used in cancer treatments

46
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Insulin

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Frederick Banting discovered
Harvested and separated from pancreas

47
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New approaches of modern medicine

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Focus on wellness
Genetic research
Transplants
Alternative Medicine

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