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Medicine Through Time Flashcards

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What did Thomas Sydenham’s observation Medicae do?

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Discovered the difference between measles and Scarlett fever and told doctors to observe the patients symptoms

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Difference between vaccination and inoculation

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Vaccination is a dead or weakened pathogen and inoculation is a small dose of the disease

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Who discovered Penicillin?

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Alexander Flemming

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Salvarsan 606 was used to treat what?

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Siffilus

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What did Hypocrites do?

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Theory of the 4 humours and the Hypocratic oath

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What was created in 1660?

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The royal society

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What did William Harvey discover?

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The circulatory system

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What did government do in the modern period to prevent disease?

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NHS, Vaccination programs

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When and what was the Black Death

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1348, plague

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Who and when created the the first vaccine

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1792, Edward Jenner

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What was used to diagnose disease 1250-1500

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Urine charts

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What is Chloroform and who discovered it?

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Anaesthetic- James Simpson

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What did Florey and Chain do?

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Developed penicillin

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What did Joseph lister discover?

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Carbolic acid

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What did Galen do?

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Theory of opposites

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Who was the first person to dissect the human body?

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Versailius

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When and what was the great plague?

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1665, plague

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4 causes of disease 1250- 1500

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God, astrology, 4 humours and Miasma

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Who led the human genome project?

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Watson and Crick

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When was the NHS created?

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1948

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When was germ theory discovered?

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1861

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What was the governments attitude to disease in 1250-1750?

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Laissez-faire

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What is the theory of the 4 humours?

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If one of the 4 humours is out of balance then that is what is wrong

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When was the compulsory public health act introduced?

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1875

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Who would diagnose disease in 1250-1750?

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Physicians

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What did Robert Koch do?

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Found which specific microbe caused disease

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What new methods were used to diagnose disease in the modern period?

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X-rays, MRI, medical machines

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Who took photo 51?

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Rosalin Franklin

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What did Florence Nightingale do?

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Improved care and sanitation in hospital

30
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What new cause of disease appears 1500-1750?

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Transference

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