Lec1 Flashcards
the health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of optimal cardiopulmonary function and health.
Respiratory care or respiratory therapy
father of medicine,
Hippocrates
Greek physician living during fifth and fourth centuries BC
father of medicine,” Hippocrates”
– Hippocratic medicine: based on four essential fluids
phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and black bile
believed air contained essential substance distributed to body via heart
Hippocrates
calls for physicians to follow certain ethical principles(Given to most medical students at graduation)
The Hippocratic oath
first great biologist
Aristotle
developed pneumatic theory of respiration in Egypt
Erasistratus
anatomist who believed air had substance vital to life
Galen
described properties of CO2
Joseph Black
describes his discovery of oxygen (O2) – “dephlogisticated air”
Joseph Priestley
describes tissue respiration
Lazzaro Spallazani
describes relationship between gas
temperature and volume
Jacques Charles
Charles law”
uses O2 to treat various conditions at Pneumatic Institute
Thomas Beddoes
describes his law of partial pressures
John Dalton