True or False/Fill in The Blanks (History of Medicine) Flashcards
The medical discoveries of the egyptian doctor Imhop are well-known today
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The most fancient Greek doctor was _
Hippocrates
One of the Greek treatments for diseases was to have the sick person dream away the sickness in a pagen temple
t
Older doctrs predicted that doctors who followed Hippocrates’ teaching would be _ by the gods
punished
The hippocratic oath for doctors is _
a pledge of conduct
The titles given to Hippocrates is
Father of medicine
The most important physician during Roman times was _
Galen
The city of Alexandria was noted for ts huge _
library
Galen learned firsthadn about the human body from _
treating injured gladiators
when Galen went to Rome, he was put in prision
F
Gale believed that the marvelous complexity of the human body pointed to a creator
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Charlemagne was an important writer during the dark ages
F
Alexandra’s great library was _
burned by a mob
The books by hippocrates and galen were free of errors
F
doctors used bloodletting because they believed it put the body’s four humors in balance
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the treatment Georgie Washington received was based on the 4 humor theory of disease
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Anatomy is the study of_
the human body
Medical schools used Galens books as the final word in medicine
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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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Andreas Vesalius came from a long line of _
doctors
Veasalius’s father discouraged him from doing medical experiments
F
Vesalius studied skeletons of humans while Galen had studed skeletons of _
apes
at padua, students paid the teacher’s saleries
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Vesalius lectures were popular with the medical professors at Padua
F
Veaius lectures were popular with the students at Padua
T
Those professors who opposed Vesalius believed _
dissections served no purpose
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
F
When Vesalius died, he was hailed as a hero and given a state funeral
F
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
As a child Pare learned to read and write both Latin and greek
F
In Paris, Pare took a position at a _
charity hospital
Pare said, the foundation of medicine must be _
love
Pare’s improved treatment to stop the bleeding after an amputation was to _
use thread to tie the veins and arteries closed
Ambroise Pare said “I treated him, _ healed him”
God
Pare was reluctant to share his discoveries with others
F
PAre became France’s most skilled surgeon and earned the title _
First surgeon of the king
When William Harvey attended Padua in Italy, its most famous teacher was _
Galileo
William Harvey believed that experiements could be used to study medicine
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Blood is carried to the heart by _
veins
when William Harvey tied closed an artery, it bulged on the side _ the heart
towards
William Harvey discovered the connection between arteries and veins and named them capillaries
F
****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
Leeuwenhoek worked as a janitor of the city hall
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Leeuwenhoek wrote about his discoveries in _
Dutch
The Royal Society refused to read Leeuwenhoek letters
F
Leeuwenhoek made 550 microscopes because _
he kept his favorite subjects mounted in front of his lense
The black death was caused by _
a certain type of bacteria
Those who survived smallpox had beautiful. clear skin
F
A person could get smallpox time and time again
F
the milkmaid believed that those who had cowpox _
never fell victim to smallpox
after giving the boy cowpox, Jenner waited two months and gave him smallpox
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Vacca is a word meaning
cow
the royal society was the first to publish Edward Jenner’s paper about his discovery
F
The british royal family was vaccinated
T
the college of physicians was the first medical group to honor Jenner
F
Surgeons who gave their patients opium and morphine ran the risk of causing their patients to become drug addicts
T
Whiskey proved to be an effective painkiller
F
By the start of the 1800s, the skill fo a surgeon was jus=dged by _
how fast he worked
The two most common gases in the earth’s atmosphere are oxygen and _
nitrogen
Pneumatic means lung
F
Davy took care of the large family debt by _
paying it back
Davy keot secret most of his discoveries
F
Humphry Davy used laughing gas during a hospital operations
F
James Simpson experimented with ether and had _
limited success
Chloroform does not explode and has a _
sweet smell
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
Before his medical studies began, William Morton received private instructions from _
Charles Jackson
Charles Jackson claimed he had invented the _
telegraph
