MEDICINE - people Flashcards
1
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Galen
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- theory of opposites
- popular with church
2
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Hippocrates
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the four humors
3
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Thomas Sydenham
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book - ‘observationes medicae’
- observe patiens symptoms instead of j looking at med books
4
Q
Versalius
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- dissections
- improved understanding of the human body
- proved galens work incorrect
5
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William Harvey
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- proved Versalius right that blood only flowed one way - dissections
- blood not produced in liver - Galen wrong
- arteries and veins part of same system
6
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Pasteur
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- germ theory
- microbes in air cause decay
7
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Robert Koch
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- proved Pasteur right
- identified the specific microbes that cause TB and cholera
- discovered how to grow agar jelly easily with stained dye
8
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Florence Nightingale
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- importance of cleanness
- more work for women and training
9
Q
Lister
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- soaks carbolic acid to avoid wound getting infected
- ASEPTIC SURGERY
10
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Jenner
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- vaccines
- ppl w cowpox never caught small pox
11
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John Snow
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- water pump
- causeing disease
- new sewer systems
12
Q
Ehrlich
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- magic bulllets
- cure for syphilis
- took koches idea that chemical dyes stain specific mircobes
13
Q
Alexander Flemming
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- penicillin
14
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Floney and Chain
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- continued Flemmings’s work on penicillin
- miracle drug
15
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Roetogen
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x rays
