Week 1 - (DON'T HAVE TO KNOW) Flashcards
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Hippocrates
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- Father of medical research
- 400 BC
- Wrote 3 articles on epidemiology:
– Epidemic I
– On Airs, Waters and Places
– Epidemic III - Coined the terms ‘epidemic’ and ‘epidemiology’
- Determined and described diseases which occurred in specific
places at specific time periods - Introduced for the first time the concept of the ‘risk factor’ and
suggested that each disease is caused by different risk factors
2
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James Linds
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