US Healthcare History Flashcards
When was the first medical school founded?
1776.
Who was the first medical school founded by?
John Morgan.
What did people in the primitive times believe was the cause of illness and death?
Supernatural beings.
Who were the first to require doctors and physicians to be paid?
Babylonians.
Who was the VERY FIRST doctor?
Imhotep.
Who had the first sewers?
Hindus.
Who had the first hospitals and nurses?
Hindus.
What did the Chinese document?
Over 1,000 herbs.
Who discovered acupuncture?
Chinese.
Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?
Hippocrates.
What did Hippocrates discover?
Observation note-taking.
What did Aristotle begin experimenting with?
Human anatomy.
Who lead the Romans in the wrong direction by ignoring Hippocrates teaching?
Claudius Galen.
Why did medical studies stop in the dark ages?
Rome was overthrown by barbarians and the study of medicine became forbidden.
When were barbers also physicians to the common people?
The middle ages.
