Medicine - Industrial Flashcards by Anna Pope | Brainscape

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Who Invented the Smallpox Vaccination and When?

A

Jenner and 1798

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What Did Simpson Discover in 1847?

A

Cholroform

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What did Snow solve?

A

Cholera (1854)

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What is Nightingale known as?

A

The mother of modern nursing

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When did she go to the Crimean war?

A

1850s

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What did Pasteur discover in 1861?

A

Germs

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Who invented Carbolic spray?

A

Lister

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What happened in 1875?

A

The second public heath act

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What is Koch responsible for?

A

Specific germs (bacteriology)

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Miasma

A

Bad smells that ‘cause’ disease

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Amputation

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Removal of a limb

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Anaesthetics

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Drugs used to knock a patient out

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Anthrax

A

An infectious disease effecting mostly animals

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Antibodies

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A substance produced in the body to fight diseases

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Antiseptics

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Chemical used to destroy bacteria and infections

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Cesspit

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A place for collecting and storing sewage

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Ligature

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A thread used to tie a blood vessel during an operation