Ch. 1 History Flashcards
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Soranus
Greek physician
2nd century
Father of obstetrics
Podalic version
- what is it
- who discovered it
rotating the fetus to a breech position, used for twins
-Soranus
Karl Crede
19th century
instilling 2% silver nitrate into eyes to prevent blindness from gonorrhea
Ignaz Semmelweis
19th century
deduced that puerperal fever was septic, contagious and transmitted by poor hand hygeine
Lois Pasteur
French chemist
confirmed that puerperal fever is caused by bacteria
Joseph Lister
british surgeon
introduced antiseptic surgery
Hippocrates
wrote about illnesses peculiar to children
In the middle ages when did children become adults
age 7
Saint Vincent de Paul
founded children’s asylums that later became hospitals
First children’s hospital
Paris 1802
Children’s Aid Society
NYC 1853
cared for homeless children
First Pediatric hospital in united states
1855 Children’s hospital of Philadelphia
Abraham Jacobi
Father of pediatrics
Samuel Bard
1807
Wrote the first american textbook for midwives
Oliver Wendell Holmes
wrote a paper on contagious nature of puerperal fever
American Nurses Association
develop standards of practice
Sheppard-Towner Act of 1912
1921
gives funds for state-managed maternity care
Title V of the social security act
1935
gives funds for maternity care
Fair labor standards act
1938
child labor laws
National institutes of Health (NIH)
1962
established support for maternity research and education
Head start programs where started when?
1966
WIC program was started
1966
National center for family planning was started
1970
The child abuse prevention and treatment act (CAPTA) was started when
1974