CPH LESSON 1 Flashcards
(49 cards)
Founder of western medicine
Hippocrates
Practice of community sanitation
Greeks
Building of aqueducts to protect water supply
Romans
Made the first hospital
Romans
Proper diversion of human waste was a necessary tenet of public health in URBAN AREAS
Roman Times
ROMAN TIMES
The code of Hammurabi was made of
Steel
They developed the practice of variolation following a smallpox
Chinese
In this practice, children were protected against smallpox by inoculating scratch on their forearms with the pus from a lesion of an infected individual
Variolation
This age marks the end of roman ideology
500/1500 Middle ages/Dark ages
This period believes Health problems were considered to have spiritual causes and solutions
500/1500 Middle ages/Dark ages
Germ theory of disease thought disease were caused by:
Evil spirits
Demons
Witchcrafts
Superstitions
Ghost
Curses
It was believed that removing bodies of the death would further prevent the spread of the bacterial infection…
Burning parts of cities
14th century/Black death in Europe
This practice helped mitigate the effects of other infectious diseases
Quarantine
Science of police
Polizeiwissenschaft
Focuses on circulation air, location of cemeteries
Social medicine
Miasma theory of disease; management of population
Biopower
Theory that life developed from non living matter
Spontaneous generation
Father of microbiology
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Small forms of life
Animalcules
Views of epidemic
Miasmic
Contagion
This theory held that epidemic stemmed from certain atmospheric conditions and from miasmas rising from organic materials
MIASMIC
Theory held that epidemics resulted from transmission of germs
Contagion
It is the year when practice of vaccinations begins
1820
Who started the practice of vaccination which became prevalent, and helps in treating smallpox
Edward Jenner