Module 1 Flashcards

1
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(500-323 BC)

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Ancient Greece

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2
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(23 BC-476 AD)

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Roman Empire

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3
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(476-1450 AD)

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Middle Ages

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4
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(1400-1600 AD)

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Renaissance

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5
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(1650-1800 AD)

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Birth of Modern Medicine

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6
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(1800s-1900s)

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Sanitary Awakening

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7
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(1900 AD-Onwards)

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Modern Public Health

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8
Q

a founding member of the Royal Society of London, published the Observation
on the “Bills of Mortality” in a
publication entitled “Natural and Political Observations”

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JOHN GRAUNT

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9
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Edward Jenner successfully demonstrated smallpox vaccination

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1796

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10
Q

− First solid data collection
− Vital statistics

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1662

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10
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

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1670

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11
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

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1683

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11
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James Lind publishes his Treatise of Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy

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1747

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12
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Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

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1853

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13
Q

→ had water pump handle removed from the Broad
Street (where cholera started) pump to prevent
the spread of a disease
→ father of modern Epidemiology

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John Snow (1854)

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14
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− established the germ theory of disease

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Louis Pasteur 1863

15
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− established a relationship between a particular microbe and a particular disease.

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Robert Koch 1876

16
Q

First vaccine developed for cholera

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1879

17
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First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur

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1881

18
Q

First vaccine developed for rabies by Louis
Pasteur

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1882

19
Q

Koch discovers the TB bacillus

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1882

20
Q

− discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines

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1890: Emil von Behring

21
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays

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1895

22
Q

First vaccine developed for typhoid fever

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1896

23
Q

− confirmed the theory that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitos

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1900: Walter Reed