specific discoveries

Question 1

Pasteurization

Answer 1

Pasteurization which is the process that kills certain germs in food by using heat helped advance our understanding because we were able to understand that heat can kill bacteria which extends shelf life which helps us from getting sick they discovered bacteria in food that made people sick and then found out how to kill the bacteria

Question 2

Antibiotics

Answer 2

This was a needed discovery because it is now the easiest and most important way to fight bacteria. This was important because the past ways of dealing with infections were not based on science at all

Question 3

Heart transplant

Answer 3

This was a big step in medicine because before the thought of exchanging a main organ was probably seen as a very unlikely procedure so the fact that we were able to do that and the person live is incredible

Question 4

Dialysis

Answer 4

This treatment was successfully done in 1943. I feel as though this proved that we could treat problems that the body couldn’t do naturally anymore. I’m not sure if that made sense but it proved that medicine could help make the body do things it no longer could.

Question 5

X-ray

Answer 5

This was a really important invention it helped us see and understand tumors and bones in a way we couldn’t before now we can find the exact fracture or break and take action to fix it from there

Question 6

Ultrasound

Answer 6

Kind of like the x-ray but this helped us see little babies and how they grow but it changed how we could use medical imagery we intern learned about the process of a baby’s development.

Question 7

Sphygmomanometer

Answer 7

This was important because it helped explain the reasoning for pains or such and it is actually rather simple but it can help prevent so many things