history

Cards (19)

  • founder of medicine
    hippocrates
  • according to him, heart is the seat of intelligence
    aristotle
  • hippocratic oath
    save life and not take it; not to cause abortion; maintain prof rs w the patient; maintain confidentiality
  • acc to hippocrates, pathogens/diseases may developed through these factors
    diet, bodily fluids; environment
  • founder/father of anatomy
    herophilus
  • reverse the with long standing of Aristotle's concept that the heart was the seat of intelligence-- for him, it's the
    herophilus
  • father/founder of physiology
    erasistratus
  • first physician to dissect human bodies
    herophilus
  • first physiologist; first to appreciate that the heart is a pump
    erasistratus
  • first one to accurately describe the 1-way passage of blood through the heart valves
    erasistratus
  • erasistratus chiefly believef that these factors can be used as treatments other than the purgatives and bloodletting
    hygiene, baths, diet, and exercise
  • oldest scientific discipline in med
    anatomy
  • in what country and century did the first scientific dissection occur?

    alexandria, egypt in 3rd century bce
  • father of experimental physiology and father of vivisection
    claudius galen
  • vivus means___; section means___
    alive; cutting
  • based his medical practice on observ. and on the study of the human body
    hippocrates
  • psychological condition that manifested physically without symptoms
    psychosomatic disorder
  • father of modern experimental physiology
    claude bernard
  • he proved over 200 of galen's anatomical work was incorrect
    andreas vesalius