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Medieval and Renaissance Flashcards

1
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Stabilized the Roman empire 330 AD

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Emperor Constantine

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2
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Capital of christianity

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Byzantium (Constantinople)

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3
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Patron of physicians and pharmacists

Skilled in medicine; refused to accept any kind of payment for services

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Brothers Cosmas and Damian

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4
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Patron of dentistry

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St. Apollonia

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5
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Patron of Opthalmology

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St. Lucy

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6
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Patron for pestilential disease; plaque buboes

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St. Sebastian

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7
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Patron for gardeners and venereal disease sufferers

Protector against hemorrhoids

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St. Fiacre

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Benedictine monks christian missions for the poor, elderly, strangers, foundlings, and orphans

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Ptochia: for the poor
Gerontochia: for the elderly
Xenodochia: for the strangers
Brephotrophia: for the foundlings
Orphanotrophia: for the orphans
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9
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Mother of Constantine I, founded a hospital in the Holy Land 330 AD

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St. Helena

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10
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Plague hospital

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St. Ephraim

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11
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Rich roman matron who set up the first christian hospital in europe

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Fabiola

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12
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German who led the Goths that became the fall of Rome

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Odoacer

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13
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Leader of the last Roman Empire

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Augustus Romulus

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14
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Concoction of bile from the gall of a boar, opium, henbane, hemlock, and vinegar for anesthesia

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Dwale

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15
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A medieval method of injective medicines into the anus

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Clysters

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16
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Period of recovery form the dark ages

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8-12th century

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17
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Crowned by Pope Leo III as emperor of the holy roman empire that lasted 1,000 years and promoted the spread of christianity

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Charlemagne

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18
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Ancient medicine that “cure all”

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Theriac

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19
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Compilation of ancient diseases (book)

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Leech Books

20
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Comprises the Trivium

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Grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric

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Comprises the quadrivium

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Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy

22
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Female, german doctor
Book of simple medicine (plants, animals, and metals for therapy)
Book of compound medicine: causes and treatments of diseases,seuality, and astrology

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Hildegard of Bingen

23
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First femal professor of medicine in Italy
First gynecologist
Proper diet during breast feeding
Uterine prolapse and polyps

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Trotula of Salerno

24
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Differentiated small pox from measles

25
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Refined modern surgical techniques; used animal gut for sutures

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Developed scientific method in his study of optics; lenses for magnification and correction

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Described the progression of cancers and treatment of early tumors by complete removal

28
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Established intravenous infusion using silver needles; tracheostomy; itch mite causing scabies

29
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Described separation of right and left ventricles;

Path of pulmonary and coronary circulation;

30
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Used convex lenses for eye glasses and correction of far sightedness

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Roger Bacon

31
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Performed public dissection of human cadavers

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Mondino de Liuzzi

32
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Hypothesized that infectios diseases were transmitted by particles that spread from person to person

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Ibn Khatima

33
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Influence of crusaders

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Opened trade between east and west

Establishment of military hospitals

34
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Year of the bubonic plague

35
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Etiology of the bubonic plague

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Microbacterium Yersinia pestis

36
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Wrote the Decameron

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Giovanni Boccaccio

37
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Etiology of Leprosy

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mycobacterium lepre

38
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Cured emperor Constantine of leprosy

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St. Sylvester

39
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Oldest and most common venereal disease

40
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Scourge of the renaissance

41
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Father of modern human anatomy
Challenged Galen’s anatomy
First complete textbook in anatomy

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Andreas Vesalius

42
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First complete textbook in anatomy

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de Humani Corporis Fabrica

43
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Father of moderns surgery, royal surgeon
Cauterization, artery ligation
Designed artificial hands and limbs

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Ambroise Pare

44
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Discovered anesthesia - Ether

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Paracelsus

45
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Suggested mercury for the treatment of syphilis

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Girolamo Fracastoro

46
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Father of modern physiology
English medical doctor
Description of the circulation
Challenged Galen’s theory

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William Harvey

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