History Of Health Care

Question 1

Razes

Answer 1

Made suturing material

Question 2

Michelangelo & Da Vinci

Answer 2

Studied anatomy, anatomic art

Question 3

William Harvey

Answer 3

Described systemic circulation

Question 4

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 4

Microscope

Question 5

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Answer 5

Thermometer

Question 6

Ben Franklin

Answer 6

Bifocal glasses, 1st American med school

Question 7

Edward Jenner

Answer 7

Small pox immunization

Question 8

Rene Laennec

Answer 8

Stethoscope

Question 9

Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 9

1st woman to receive medical degree

Question 10

Florence Nightengale

Answer 10

Founder of modern nursing

Question 11

Joseph Lister

Answer 11

Cleanliness in surgery

Question 12

Clara Barton

Answer 12

Founded the American Red Cross

Question 13

Robert Koch

Answer 13

Bacteriology

Question 14

Louis Pasteur

Answer 14

Discovered microorganisms, pasteurization

Question 15

Gregory Mendel

Answer 15

Founder of genetics

Question 16

Dimitri Ivanofski

Answer 16

1st to discover viruses

Question 17

Wilhelm Roentgen

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X-ray generator

Question 18

Marie Currie

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Radioactivity

Question 19

Sigmund Freud

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Psychology theories

Question 20

Alexander Flemming

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Discovered penicillin

Question 21

Watson & Crick

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DNA

Question 22

Rosalind Franklin

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Double helix DNA structure

Question 23

Ancient times

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• illness caused by evil spirits/demons
• Egyptians kept accurate health records
• Chinese believed in holistic curing
• Greeks studied cause of disease
• Romans connected poor sanitation to disease

Question 24

Dark Ages

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• life and death in Gods hands
• epidemics
• medicine only practices in convents and monasteries

Question 25

Middle Ages

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* Arabs develop pharmacology | * physicians are required to pass exams and get license

Question 26

Renaissance

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* human dissection | * limited to anatomy, cause of disease still unknown

Question 27

16th, 17th, 18th

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* study of how human body works * prescribe medicines * microscope

Question 28

18th, 19th

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* stethoscope | * formal training for nurses

Question 29

19th

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* proved microorganisms cause disease | * disinfectants

Question 30

20th

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•rapid growth in understanding of health care •health insurance and standards of care >kidney dialysis, organ transplant, artificial heart, animal cloning

Question 31

21st

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* human stem cells * human genome sequence * totally implantable artificial heart

Question 32

Hippocrates

Answer 32

Father of medicine