Lab 1-The Scientific Method Flashcards
Data collected for experiments should be:
Unbiased
T/F: there is no proof in science
True
How many variables should be changed at a time during an experiment?
1
What is a control in an experiment?
Baseline for comparison
Young Hungarian Doctor working in obstetrical ward of Vienna General Hospital in the late 1840s
Ignaz Semmelweis
Who attended division one of the ward?
Physicians and male medical students
Who attended division 2 of the ward?
Female midwifery students
What was “childbed fever”
Women dying shortly after childbirth
Death rate was how many times greater in division 1 than in division 2
Four to five times
What made Semmelweis consider an alternative explanation for all of these deaths?
His friend cut his finger with a scalpel and became sick with symptoms not unlike those of childbed fever.
Semmelweis instituted a _______________________ in Division 1 of the ward in hopes of cutting the death rate down.
Strict handwashing policy
The newly instituted handwashing policy required male students and physician colleagues to wash their hands in ________________ prior to attending patients.
Chlorinated lime water
What is chlorinated lime water?
Calcium-oxide or calcium hypochlorite
How did the greater medical community respond to Semmelweis’s findings?
They greeted it with hostility or dismissal.
Childbed fever was also referred to as:
Puerperal sepsis
