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Believed that illness and disease were caused by supernatural spirits and demons

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Primitive times

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Tribal witch doctors treated illness with ceremonies to drive out evil spirits

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Primitive times

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Some herbs and plants from primitive times are still used today. T or F?

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True

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Trepanation

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Boring a hole in the skull to treat insanity and epilepsy

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Earliest known people to keep accurate health records

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Ancient Egyptians

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Physicians were priests

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Ancient Egyptians

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Imhotep

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May have been the first physician

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Egyptians did what if the “channels” in the body were clogged?

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Bloodletting or leeches were used to “open” them

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Carefully monitored pulse to determine condition of body

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Ancient Chinese

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Believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body

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Ancient Chinese

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Chinese used acupuncture, for what?

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To relieve pain and congestion

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Moxibustion

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Placing a powdered substance on skin and burning it to cause a blister to treat disease

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Hippocrates was

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The father of medicine

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Aristotle was

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The founder of comparative anatomy

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Used therapies such as massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment

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Ancient Greeks

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Stressed diet and cleanliness as ways to prevent disease

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Ancient Greeks

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First to organize medical care for injured soldiers

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Ancient Romans

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Early hospitals when physicians cared for ill people in rooms in their homes

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Ancient Romans

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Ancient Romans began public health and sanitations by doing what?

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  • Aqueducts to carry clean water to cities
  • sewers to carry waste away
  • drained marshes to reduce incidence or malaria
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Claudius Galen

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Four humors: blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile

Imbalance in humors resulted in illness

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Emphasis on saving the soul and the study of medicine was prohibited when?

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Dark Ages

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What was used to treat illness and disease in the Dark Ages?

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Prayer and divine intervention

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A pandemic of what killed 3/4 of the population of Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages?

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Bubonic Plague

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Rhazes

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known as the Arab Hippocrates

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Arabs began requiring that physicians do what?
Passing exams and obtaining licenses
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Avenzoar
Described parasite causing scabies
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Rebirth of science and medicine?
Renaissance
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Artists Michelangelo and Leonard da Vinci used what to better draw the human body?
Dissection of humans
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Andreas Vesalius
First anatomy book published by him
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Development of the what allowed knowledge to be spread to other?
The printing press
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Michael Servetus
described the circulatory system in the lungs
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Roger Bacon
promoted chemical remedies to treat disease
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Ambroise Pare
* known as the father of modern surgery | * used ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding
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Gabriel Fallopius
* Fallopian tubes in females | * Tympanic membrane in ear
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William Harvey
described circulation of blood in 1628
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
invented microscope in 1666
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Bartolomeo Eustachio
eustachian tube leading from ear to throat
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Apothecaries did what and when were they introduced?
made, prescribed, and sold medications, introduced in 16th & 17th centuries
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
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Joseph Priestly
discovered the element oxygen in 1774
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John Hunter the English surgeon did what?
•introduced tube feeding in 1778
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Benjamin Franklin
invented bifocals
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First successful Cesarean section was done by who in 1794?
Dr. Jesse Bennet
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James Lind
prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795
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Edward Jenner
developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796
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Carl Landsteiner
classified the ABO blood groups in 1901
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Marie Curie
isolated radium in 1910
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Sigmund Freud
studies formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry
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Banting and Best
discovered and used insulin to treat diabetes in 1922
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Sir Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin in 1928
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Buddy, a German Shepherd became the first what in 1928?
the first guide dog for the blind
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Gerhard Domagk
developed sulfa drugs to fight infections
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Jonas Salk
polio vaccine using dead polio virus in 1952
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Dr. George Papanicolaou
pap test to detect cervical cancer in 1941
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First heart lung machine was used for open heart surgery when?
1953
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Who performed the first successful kidney transplant and when?
Joseph Murray and in 1954
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When was birth control pills approved by the FDA and why was this such a popular medication?
1960s & because of Woodstock (sex, drugs, music)
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Who performed the first successful heart transplant and when?
Christian Barnard and in 1967
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When was the CAT scan developed and what does it stand for?
1975 and Computerized axial tomography
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What is the name of the first "test tube baby" and when were they born?
Louise Brown, and in England in 1978
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AIDs was identified as a disease in 1983. T or F? If not, then when?
False. 1981
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What was the name of the first artificial heart, who transplanted it, and when?
Jarvik-7 Dr. William DeVries 1982
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When was the HIV virus causing AIDs identified?
1984
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What did the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 do?
* agency for health care | * measures of health care quality
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What did the Patient Self-Determination Act that was passed in 1990 do?
•required health care providers to inform patients of their rights
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A vaccine for what was approved in 1995?
Chicken pox
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President Clinton signed what in 1996 and what did it do?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and it protects patient privacy and makes it easier to get and keep health insurance
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A what was cloned in 1997?
A sheep named Dolly

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