History And Trends Of Healthcare - People

Question 1

• Greek physician known as the father of medicine
• author coat of conduct for doctors known as the Hippocratic oath that is basis of medical practice today
• believe illness was not caused by evil spirits and stress importance of good diet fresh air cleanliness and exercise

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

• invented the microscope lens that allowed visualization of organisms
• Scraped his teeth and observed bacteria that causes tooth decay

Answer 2

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 3

• invented bifocals

* Found that cold could be passed from person to person

Answer 3

Benjamin Franklin

Question 4

• surgeon from Danville Kentucky

* Perform the first ovariotomy a surgical removal of the ovary to remove a 22 lb

Answer 4

Ephraim McDowell

Question 5

*develop the vaccination for smallpox in 1796

Answer 5

Edward Jenner

Question 6

• invented these stethoscope in 1819

* First stethoscope was made of wood

Answer 6

Renee Laennec

Question 7

*first female physician in the United States in 1849

Answer 7

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 8

• known as the founder of modern nursing
• Established efficient and sanitary nursing units during the Crimean war in 1854
• Infant did they call Bell system and use the dumb waiters to deliver meals
• Began a professional education of nurses

Answer 8

Florence Nightingale

Question 9

• father of microbiology
• His germ theory proved that microorganisms causes diseases
• Prove that heat can be used to destroy germs through a process called pasteurization
• Created a vaccine for rabies in 1885
• Founded the basic rules for sterilization

Answer 9

Louis Pasteur

Question 10

• use carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs

* First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery

Answer 10

Joseph Lister

Question 11

• volunteer nurse for wounded soldiers during the civil war
• After civil war established a bureau of records to search for missing men
• campaign for the USA to sign a treaty of Geneva which provided relief for sick and wounded soldiers
• Formed American red Cross in 1881 and served as its first president

Answer 11

Clara Barton

Question 12

• develop the culture plate method to identify pathogens

* Isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis

Answer 12

Robert koch

Question 13

• discovered roentgenograms x-rays in 1895
• My doctor see inside the body
• X-rayed his wife’s hand

Answer 13

Wilham roentgen

Question 14

• Discovered the conscious and unconscious part of the mind

* His studies were basis for psychology and psychiatry

Answer 14

Sigmund freud

Question 15

*discovered penicillin in 1928 which was considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century

Answer 15

Sir Alexander Fleming

Question 16

• discovered polio vaccine

* Saved many people from the virus that paralyzed thousands of adults and children each year

Answer 16

Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin

Question 17

• describe the structure of DNA and how it carries genetic information in 1953
• Built a three-dimensional model of the molecules of DNA
• Shared Nobel prize in 1962

Answer 17

Frances Crick and James Watson

Question 18

*perform the first successful heart transplant in 1968

Answer 18

Christian Barnard

Question 19

• creator of the first artificial heart
• On December 2nd 1982 it was planted into Barney Clark who lived for the next 112 days
• The second patient William Schroeder lived 620 days

Answer 19

Robert jarvik

Question 20

• Famous for his surgery to separate Siamese twins
• Current director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins
• How’s your hemispherectomy surgery on the brain to stop seizures

Answer 20

Ben Carson