Modern Med Flashcards
Who discovered the Circulation of Blood ?
William Harvey
He also dicovered that heart is a muscular pump
Moving in one direction
Who discovered LAUGHING GAS ?
That also resulted in dentistry less painful
Humphry Davy
Who discovered CHLOROFORM?
JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON
He also fought to make anaesthesia part of surgery
Who Invented SPECIAL GLASS INHALER?
WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN MORTON
HE also added perfume to ether
Successfully used ether to pull a tooth and to then perform painless surgery
Who Invented SPECIAL GLASS INHALER?
WILLIAM THOMAS GREEN MORTON
HE also added perfume to ether
Successfully used ether to pull a tooth and to then perform painless surgery
What did JAMES LIND FOUND?
Those who ate citrus fruit stayed healthier
Found that vitamin C cure Scuvy
Who ordered sailors to drink lime Juice?
BRITISH NAVY
What did CHRISTIAN EIJKMAN found?
Bacteria did not cause Beri Beri
Found that Brown Rice was a cure for beri²
Because of a vitamin (thiamine) in the husks
What did Jakob Henle do?
Published Essay on Miasmata & contagia
Trying to show tiny living creatures in human body caused infectious diseases
Ignaz PHILLIPP SEMMELWEISS
Discovered doctors were spreading childbed fever
Doctors were carrying the disease from corpses to their patients
Cleanliness could prevent childbed fever
Joseph Lister
Discovered
Carbolic acid prevented infection
Absence of germs mattered in surgery
Everything kepr clean and disinfected
Robert Koch
Discovered
Anthrax was caused by bacteria
Louis Pasteur
Dismissed the miasmatic theory
Argued that disease were caused by germs
Established bacteriology as a science
Found that anthrax could be made by heating the bacteria
Discovered rabies was caused by a virus
Then develop a vaccine for humans
JOHN SNOW
FATHER OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Brought an end to the epidemic (Choleta epidemic in Soho London)
Demonstrated that only those who drank from infected broad street pump contracted the disease
JOHN SNOW
FATHER OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Brought an end to the epidemic (Choleta epidemic in Soho London)
Demonstrated that only those who drank from infected broad street pump contracted the disease
