People Flashcards
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- during the Greek era
- he emphasized the rational treatment or sickness as a natural rather than god-inflicted phenomenon.
- considered the father of medicine
- wrote the most important book Air, Water, and Places, which detailed the relationship between humans and environment
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Hippocrates
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- Greek era
- he had the idea that most damaged the practice and the scientific theory of health
- spoke about the doctrine of the four humors: blood, bile, phlegm and black bile
- believe man was a microcosm
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Empedodes
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- greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates
- gained great fame as a medical practitioner, lecturer, and experimenter.
- he was considered the last greatest physicians of antiquity
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Galen
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- theory of gravity that changed the world forever
- during the renaissance
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Isaac Newton
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- the greatest geniuses of all time
- made a number of anatomic drawings based on dissection experiences
- during the renaissance
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Leonardo da Vinci
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- discovered an effusive method of vaccination against smallpox virus
- during renaissance
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Edward Jenner
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- one of the greatest scientists of the renaissance period
- he discovered that if wine was heated to a temperature of 55 Celsius to 69 Celsius, the process killed the microorganism that spoiled wine
- investigated many fields and saved many lives from the consequences of contaminated milk and food
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Louis Pasteur
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- was the physician who set out to decrease the mortality resulting from infection after surgery
- arrived with a chemical antiseptic solution
- during renaissance
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Joseph Lister
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- during the renaissance
- a physician known for his research on anthrax
- is regarded to as the father of microbiology
- identified the organism that caused cholera
- demonstrated his transmission by water, food and clothing
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Robert Koch
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- during the renaissance
- proved the germ theory, that germs are the cause of infectious diseases
- can be considered the greatest achievement of the 1800s.
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Edwin Klebs
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- during the renaissance
- founded the Sisters of Charity in France, an order of nuns who travel from home to home visiting the sick
- he believed that for family members to go to the hospital was disruptive to family life and that taking nursing services home enabled health to be restored more effectively and more efficiently
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Saint Vincent de Paul
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- during the 19th century
- the first epidemiologist
- demonstrated that cholera rates were linked with water pumps used in London.
- conclusion that cholera was not carried by bad air but by contact
- he did not discover what caused cholera but he almost came close to identifying organisms
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John Snow
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- first women’s activist
- became a militant suffragist linking women’s roles as nurses to th emerging women’s movement in the U.S.
- worked with Isabell Hampton Robb
- urged nurses to join the Union Movement
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Lavinia Dock
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- she is credited with the title “public health nurse”
- she and her colleague Mary Brewster established Henry Street Settlement
- helped educate families about disease transmission and emphasized the importance of good hygiene
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Lillian Wald
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- Wald hired her as the first African American nurse
- she made it her way by finding African American families who needed her service
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Elizabeth Taylor
