CHEM FINAL (FIGURES) Flashcards
(81 cards)
He drew accurate drawings of the heart, on which novel surgical techniques were based
Leonardo da Vinci
First to consider the circulatory system (i.e. the heart pumps blood around the body)
William Harvey
An MTL Canadiens, has juvenile diabetes and celiac disease;
He uses a device called Contour Next
Max Domi
Doctor who performed the first heart transplant
Dr. Barnard
Patient who received the first heart transplant
Louis Washkansky
French patient lived for 1,250 days with an artificial heart
Frederic Thiollet
Historical figure who most likely had many hormonal problems
Goliath
English physician who found that castrating roosters led to the shrinking of their combs
John Hunter
Found that roosters showed normal sexual behaviour and the comb developed normally when a testicle was returned into the body cavity
Arnold Berthold
Found that people who had atrophied adrenal glands had poor appetite, low blood pressure, weakness, anemia, and bronzed skin
Thomas Addison
He observed that when male dogs are castrated, there are changes in their character
Charles Brown-Sequard
Implanted the testes of executed criminals into the scrota of men complained about no longer feeling youthful;
Started an ape farm
Serge Voronoff
He wrote “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” to mock this kind of research
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He bought a medical degree;
Used goat glands for his transplants
John Romulus Brinkley
He wondered how your body knew when you had eaten (when to secrete pancreatic juices)
Dolanski
Found that pancreatic juices were secreted normally when nerves were cut;
injected ground duodenum into the jugular vein of the dog
Ernest Starling
A man and a woman who suffered from gigantism
Sandy Allen and Robert Wadlow
A man who suffered from acromegaly
Andre the Giant
A man who suffered from underproduction of GH;
Worked in P. T. Barnum’s circus
General Tom Thumb
He discovered lots about the adrenal glands; The disease (underproduction by the adrenal glands) is named after him
Thomas Addison
He discovered the negative effects of too much corticosteroids in the body;
Syndrome named after him (moon face, etc,)
Harvey Cushing
He wrote on a cretinoid state, a genetic condition where one produces too little TH, which leads to all sorts of physiological problems
Dr. William Gull
These three extracted insulin from pigs at UofT
Banting, Best, and MacLeod
He underwent chemical castration
Alan Turing
