History General Medicine Flashcards
(20 cards)
First Heart transplant
Who by
What year
How many days the recipient lived for after
Who by - Christian Bernard
What Year- 1967
How many days lived - 18 days
Reasons for opposition to Heart transplant
Heart was seen as a symbol for love and judgement
Seen as symbol of soul
Religious oppostion
Heart transplants stopped for 9 years in ___
1970
Positive of Alternative medicine
Less risk
Negative of Alternative medicine
BMA calls it witchcraft
Effectiveness can be doubted
Penicillin
Discovery date
Who by
Work published in
Date - 1928
By - Alexander Fleming
Work published in - 1929
What % did penicillin take off the ally death toll
20%
How much did the US government give to produce penicillin
$80 Million
3 Bearded Men
Ambroise Pare
AndreasVersailles
William Harvey
Versalius
What he did
What this led to
Did Made more anatomical discoveries via dissections
More accurate views of anatomy - dissected humans
Led to - improved understanding and more discoveries
Doctors had greater understanding
Pare
What he did
What this led to
Did Cleaned and sewed wounds.
Used a ligature to tie off wounds
Helped develop artificial limbs
Discovered a scientific way of cleaning wounds
Led to - Improved treatment
Quicker healing and less pain in treatment
Improved knowledge as well as pioneered discoveries
Harvey
What he did
What this led to
Did -Challenged belief of blood being made in the liver and used up in muscles
Led to
Disproval of galens beliefs
Improved knowledge and challenged bloodletting
Year great plague hit London
1665
Years of cholera epidemics in the industrial revolution
1831-32 1848 1854 1866
what member of the royal family died from typhoid and it what year
Price albert in 1861
How many people worldwide did the Spanish flu kill
20-40 million people
The 4 humours
Phlegm
Blood
Yellow Bile
Black Bile
How many cups of urine were people advised to drink to prevent the black death
2
when was chloroform first used
1847
when was carbolic acid first used
1865
