history of healthcare

Question 1

hippocrates

Answer 1

-460 BC
-“father of medicine”
-took superstition and magic out and scientific
-emphasized cleanliness and diet
-hippocratic oath

Question 2

galen

Answer 2

-130 AD
-used pulse
(but did not know that it was associated with the heart)

Question 3

andreas vesalius

Answer 3

-1514
-founder of moder anatomical study

Question 4

gabrielle fallopius

Answer 4

-5151
-gave name to fallopian tubes

Question 5

william harvey

Answer 5

-1578
-observed that blood must travel in a circle through the heart, but did not know how blood traveled from arteries to veins

Question 6

anton van leeuwenhoek

Answer 6

-1723
-microorganisms=“tiny little beasties”

Question 7

john hunter

Answer 7

-late 1800
-founder of scientific surgery
-performed procedures based on pathological findings
-pathological=a condition due to disease

Question 8

edward jenner

Answer 8

-1796
-developed a vaccine for small pox

Question 9

wtg morton

Answer 9

-1800s
-introduced ether for anesthesia
-anesthesia=greek for “not feeling”

Question 10

laennec

Answer 10

-1816
-invented the stethoscope

Question 11

florence nightingale

Answer 11

-1860
-founder of modern nursing

Question 12

clara barton

Answer 12

-1881
-formed the american red cross

Question 13

lois pasteur

Answer 13

-1895
-removed microbes from milk through pasteurization

Question 14

wilhelm roentgen

Answer 14

-1895
-discovered x-rays

Question 15

joseph lister

Answer 15

-1912
-realized that bacteria caused infection
-linked instruments, bandages, and surgeons hands to carrying microbes
-laid the foundation for aseptic technique

Question 16

alexander fleming

Answer 16

-1928
-discovered penicillin

Question 17

watson and crick

Answer 17

-1953
-discovered the DNA double helix