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Individuals in Medicine - C1000 - 2000 Flashcards

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What were the 4 humours ?

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Black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm

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2
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When was the Coventry clean up ?

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1421

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3
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What was Arderne’s surgery success rate ?

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50%

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4
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What book did Arderne write ?

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“A practice for surgery” - 1350

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5
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What did Rhazes discover ?

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Allergies and fevers were natural healing methods

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6
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What book did Rhazes write ?

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“El Hawi” + 200 books

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What book did Avicenna write ?

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“Canon of medicine”

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8
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What anaesthetic did Avicenna use ?

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Cannabis and opium

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9
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What did Ibn al-Nafis discover ?

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Blood circulated through the heart - disproved Galen

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10
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When did John Hunter remove an aneurysm ?

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1785

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11
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What was John Hunter’s nickname ?

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“Father of scientific surgery”

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12
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What book did John Hunter write ?

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“Natural history of teeth”

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Who did John Hunter train ?

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Edward Jenner

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What did Pare use instead of oil for cauterisation ?

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Egg yolk, rose oil and turpentine - less painful

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What did Pare write ?

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“Les Oeuvres” - 1575

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16
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Who did Jenner test his theory on ?

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James Phipps

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When did Jenner write “ An inquiry into the cause of Cow-pox” ?

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1798

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18
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How much was Jenner Given in 1802 ?

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£10,000 for research

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19
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When were vaccines made compulsory ?

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1853

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20
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What book did William Harvey write ?

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“On the motion of the heart”

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21
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What did William Harvey discover ?

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Blood pumped around the body in a circular motion

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22
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How long after William Harvey’s work were capillaries discovered ?

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60 years later

23
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Why was Vesalius different ?

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Actually dissecting bodies and observing

24
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What was grave robbing called ?

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Burking

25
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What book did Vesalius write ?

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“Fabric of the human body”

26
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What did Pasteur theorise ?

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Micro-organisms caused disease

27
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When was Germ Theory published ?

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1861

28
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What did Pasteur invent to preserve liquids ?

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Pasteurisation

29
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What vaccine did Pasteur create ?

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Rabies vaccine

30
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What did Koch do ?

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Linked germs to specific diseases

31
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When did Koch identify the bacteria causing TB ?

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1882

32
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When did Ehrlich make salvarsan 606 ?

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1910

33
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What were these new pills called ?

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magic bullets

34
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What did Lister do ?

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Used carbolic acid to sterilise

35
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What did Lister make death rates fall by ?

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46% - 15% in 3 years

36
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When did Lister create the machine to spray carbolic acid ?

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1871

37
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What did James Simpson use ?

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Chloroform to reduce pain

38
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When did John Snow publish his book about cholera ?

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1849

39
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How did John Snow prove it was caused by dirty water ?

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Removed the pump handle of the pump where most people were dying - Less deaths

40
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What Acts did John Snow influence ?

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Public health acts of 1875 - Sanitary act of 1866

41
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What did Booth and Rowntree’s reports discover ?

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31% of people lived below the poverty line

42
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What did the Booth an Rowntree reports lead to ?

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Liberal reforms 1906 - 1918

43
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How did Fleming discover penicillin ?

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Left the bacteria exposed to mouldy bread when on holiday - The spores from the mould killed the bacteria

44
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Why did Fleming fail to take advantage of penicillin ?

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Couldn’t inject it into the blood stream

45
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Who did Florey and Chain experiment on to prove the works of penicillin ?

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A policeman who survived until he ran out of penicillin

46
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How many soldiers were treated with penicillin ?

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250,000 - 15% would’ve died without

47
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What were the 5 giants of poverty on the Beveridge report ?

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Disease, Want, Ignorance, Idleness, Poor living conditions

48
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What did the Beveridge report claim ?

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We need government support “from cradle to grave”

49
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How many copies did the Beveridge report sell ?

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100,000

50
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What did Landsteiner discover ?

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Blood types to match donors

51
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How long could blood last with an anti-coagulant ?

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28 days

52
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How many blood donors were there in WW2 ?

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700,000

53
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How many soldiers received a skin graft treatment ?

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5,000

54
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Who invented skin grafting ?

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Harold Gillies

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