True or False/Fill in The Blanks (History of Medicine) Flashcards
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The medical discoveries of the egyptian doctor Imhop are well-known today
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T
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The most fancient Greek doctor was _
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Hippocrates
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One of the Greek treatments for diseases was to have the sick person dream away the sickness in a pagen temple
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t
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Older doctrs predicted that doctors who followed Hippocrates’ teaching would be _ by the gods
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punished
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The hippocratic oath for doctors is _
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a pledge of conduct
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The titles given to Hippocrates is
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Father of medicine
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The most important physician during Roman times was _
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Galen
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The city of Alexandria was noted for ts huge _
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library
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Galen learned firsthadn about the human body from _
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treating injured gladiators
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when Galen went to Rome, he was put in prision
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F
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Gale believed that the marvelous complexity of the human body pointed to a creator
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T
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Charlemagne was an important writer during the dark ages
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F
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Alexandra’s great library was _
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burned by a mob
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The books by hippocrates and galen were free of errors
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F
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doctors used bloodletting because they believed it put the body’s four humors in balance
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T
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the treatment Georgie Washington received was based on the 4 humor theory of disease
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T
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Anatomy is the study of_
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the human body
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Medical schools used Galens books as the final word in medicine
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t
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Jacobus Sylvius taught medical students by reading from a book while an assistant carried out a dissection
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T
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Andreas Vesalius came from a long line of _
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doctors
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Veasalius’s father discouraged him from doing medical experiments
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F
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Vesalius studied skeletons of humans while Galen had studed skeletons of _
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apes
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at padua, students paid the teacher’s saleries
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T
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Vesalius lectures were popular with the medical professors at Padua
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Veaius lectures were popular with the students at Padua
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Those professors who opposed Vesalius believed _
dissections served no purpose
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Vesalius books were published the same year as Copernicus published his book putting the sun at the center of the solar system
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Vesalius use f illustrations drew swift praise form doctos who had taught Galen
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When Vesalius died, he was hailed as a hero and given a state funeral
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Publications of On the Fabric of the Human Body is considered one the ten most important events in medical science
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In Europe of the 1500s. minor operations and first aid were given by _
barbers
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As a child Pare learned to read and write both Latin and greek
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In Paris, Pare took a position at a _
charity hospital
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Pare said, the foundation of medicine must be _
love
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Pare's improved treatment to stop the bleeding after an amputation was to _
use thread to tie the veins and arteries closed
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Ambroise Pare said "I treated him, _ healed him"
God
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Pare was reluctant to share his discoveries with others
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PAre became France's most skilled surgeon and earned the title _
First surgeon of the king
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When William Harvey attended Padua in Italy, its most famous teacher was _
Galileo
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William Harvey believed that experiements could be used to study medicine
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Blood is carried to the heart by _
veins
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when William Harvey tied closed an artery, it bulged on the side _ the heart
towards
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William Harvey discovered the connection between arteries and veins and named them capillaries
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******Today, William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of blood is one of the ten most important event sin medical discovery
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The word micro means _
small
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Leeuwenhoek worked as a janitor of the city hall
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Leeuwenhoek wrote about his discoveries in _
Dutch
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The Royal Society refused to read Leeuwenhoek letters
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Leeuwenhoek made 550 microscopes because _
he kept his favorite subjects mounted in front of his lense
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The black death was caused by _
a certain type of bacteria
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Those who survived smallpox had beautiful. clear skin
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A person could get smallpox time and time again
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the milkmaid believed that those who had cowpox _
never fell victim to smallpox
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after giving the boy cowpox, Jenner waited two months and gave him smallpox
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Vacca is a word meaning
cow
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the royal society was the first to publish Edward Jenner's paper about his discovery
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The british royal family was vaccinated
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the college of physicians was the first medical group to honor Jenner
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Surgeons who gave their patients opium and morphine ran the risk of causing their patients to become drug addicts
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Whiskey proved to be an effective painkiller
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By the start of the 1800s, the skill fo a surgeon was jus=dged by _
how fast he worked
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The two most common gases in the earth's atmosphere are oxygen and _
nitrogen
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Pneumatic means lung
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Davy took care of the large family debt by _
paying it back
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Davy keot secret most of his discoveries
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Humphry Davy used laughing gas during a hospital operations
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James Simpson experimented with ether and had _
limited success
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Chloroform does not explode and has a _
sweet smell
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James Simpson became the personal physician to Queen Victoria
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William Morton earned a good income as a dentist
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William Morton attended medical school _
to learn how to relieve pain
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Before his medical studies began, William Morton received private instructions from _
Charles Jackson
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Charles Jackson claimed he had invented the _
telegraph
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William Morton learned nothing useful from Dr. Jackson
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William Morton tried ether first on _
his pet dog
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the one who was late ot the first public demonstration of ether was _
William Morton
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The first person to use ether in surgery was _
Crawford W. Long
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William Morton suffered a stroke after _
reading a newspaper account favorable to Jackson
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Charles Jackson became insane after _
seeing the inscription on Morton's tombstone
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*********The word anesthetic means no feeling
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Semmelweiss decided to study medicine because he would _
save lives
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Director Johann Klein urged Semmelweiss to save _
money
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the wards with the lowest death rates were those run by _
midwives
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a contagious disease is one that a person _
acquires by contact
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Jacob Kolletschka, Semmelweiss's friend, died of a disease he got from a corpse
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The midwives prided themselves on their bloodstained coats
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The head midwife insisted the midwives have clean hands
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when the doctors began washing their hands, the number of deaths _
decreased
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deaths began going up again because the doctors _
ignored Semmelweiss's rules
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Philipp Semmelweiss died without learning about the germ theory of disease
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Louis Pasteur's grades at Ecole Normale in Paris improved after he attended _
a lecture on chemistry
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The only difference between galactise and glucose is that they are mirror images of one another
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Louis Pasteur showed that fermentation is caused by _
yeasts that are alive
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Pasteurization is the process of air drying to kill harmful micro-organisms
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spontaneous generation is the belief that microscopic life can _
come into existence out of non-living matter
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Louis Pasteur rejected the theory of evolution
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Louis Pasteur proved that spontaneous generation _
never occurs
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Louis Pasteur showed that silkworms became sick because of _
microbes
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When Louis Pasteur suggested that microbes could cause disease, doctors _
said "Louis Pasteur is a quack"
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Louis Pasteur prepared his mind by reading the Bible and praying eac morning
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When Louis Pasteur was 46 years old, he _
suffered a stroke
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Death from infection was so common in Munich, Germany, that city officials threatened to burn the hospital
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Some doctors actually encouraged infection to develop
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A compound fracture is one in which _
A broken bone cuts through the flesh
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The one that healed without complication was a _ fracutre
simple
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Louis Pasteur claimed that tiny germs caused disease
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Carbolic acid is _
very weak
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When Dr. Lister learned that German doctors boiled instruments to kill germs instead of using carbolic acid he _
agreed to try it himself
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Antiseptic means against smell
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Listerine is named after Joseph Lister
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Joseph Lister became _
the first physician to belong to the House of the Lords, president of the royal society, physician to the queen.
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Robert Koch dreamed of being _
an explorer
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Robert Koch received a microscope as a gift from his _
wife
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To rid their livestock to anthrax, farmers had to _
kill them and burn or bury them
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Robert Koch worked on the problem of anthrax in a well-equipped research laboratory
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Spores carried a mild form of anthrax
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Robert Koch's photographs _
remained the best for more than 50 years
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When bacteria grow on a solid surface they grow in colonies in which the bacteria are all alike
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at the univeristy, Robert Koch proved his idea by three days of _
experiments
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On the third day of Robert Koch's demonstration, the professirs told their students to _
go and watch the country doctor
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Robert Koch proved what caused anthrax. but did not find a cure for it
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After Pasteur's stroke, many people assumed his scientific career to be over
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Pasteur learned to get around in a specially equipped wheelchair
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To combat disease bacteria, Pasteur learned to vaccinate an animal with a weakened bacteria of the same disease
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Pasteur found the mild form of chicken cholera by _
accident
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Pasteur produced a weakened form of anthrax by _
controlled heating
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For the public test of anthrax to be a success, Pasteur said all of the vaccinated animals must live
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Rossignol described the results of the public test of anthrax vaccination as a _
stunning success
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The number of people who survived rabies once the syptoms appeared numbered about a dozen each year
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Rabies is also known as hydrophobia
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Pasteur quickly found the rabies germ
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Pasteur succeeded in growing the rabies germ in a potato culture
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Pasteur treatment for rabies would begin after a human was bitten
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Pasteur himself have Joseph Meister the first injection against rabies
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Pasteur never went to medical school
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Scurvy means _
scaly skin
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Victims of scurvy die as if they had come apart
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the greater killer of sailors on British ships was _
scury
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the only suggestion Dr. Lind gave to Capitan Cook was to carry limes for his men
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Captain Cook's sea voyage lasted four years
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Captain Cook retured home a firm believer in Dr. Lind's limes
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******Dr. Lind learned that citrus fruits save lives because they contain vitamin C
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Beriberi means _
I cannot
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Robert Boyle recommended Christiaan Eijkman to the Dutch East India Company
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Christiaan Eijkman went to _ to treat beriberi
Java
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From the first, Christiaan Eijkman believed beriberi to be a dietary disease
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Christiaan Eijkman was able to give chickens beriberi by injected them with blood from human beriberi patiens
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Christiaan Eijkman concluded that beriberi could be prevented by _
eating brown rice
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Christiaan Eijkman never recieved notice for his discovery of dietary disease
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dietary diseases are especially contagious
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Iodine in the diet prevents _
goiter
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Lack of vitamins and minerals in the diet can cause serious illnesses
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William Crookes was the son of a wealthy tailors
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As he grew older, William Crookes became setin his ways
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William Crookes saw the glow from the tube because he _
stayed up after dark
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Magnets are static electricity change the path of light
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Cathode rays are actually streams of _
high-speed electrons
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Crookes tube filled with neon gas is used to make _
advertising signs
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X-rays are actually streams of _
high-power light rays
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Roentgen called his discovery x-rays because they _
were unknown
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Most laboratories had the equipmement to generate x-rays
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X-rays can be used to _
find bullets in a body, tell if a leg is broken, find decayed spots on teeth
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Wilhelm Roentgen patented his invention
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Wilhelm Roetgen received the first nobel prize in physcs for his discovery
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The one who discovered z-rays was _
Wilhelm Roentgen
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The discovery of the x-ray had little effect upon the scientific world.
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The year 1895 marked the first year of the _
second scientific revolution
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The one who discovered that pitchblende is radioactiv3 was _Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel
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Henri Becquerel's film was exposed by _
an ore in his desk
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Pitchblended is an ore of _
uranium
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Uraminum was named after the planet Uranus
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The one who coined the name radioactivity was _
Marie Curie
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The most radioactive element that Curies found was _
radium
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Radioactivity can kill cancer cells but is harmless to human tissue
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A tracer is a radioactive element used to coat bullets
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It is easy to find a chemical that kill germs
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Herhard Domagk studied the use of dyes in _
medicine
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Sulfa drugs come from a tree found in South america
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The treatment of president franklin Roosevel's son _
made the newspaper headlines
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Sulfa is a wonder drug because it kills one-celled bacteria but not human tiusse
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Sulfa drugs must be given in strictly measures doses
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Dr. Domagk refused the Nobel Prize because _
Hitler ordered him to turn it down
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Sulfa is a universal cure-all for infection
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