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history- medicine through time
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Who made penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
Who made the first vaccine
Edward Jenner
Who discovered
germ
theory
Louis Pasteur
What was the government trying to help in modern medicine
Lifestyle
Who improved the germ theory
Koch
Who discovered magic bullets
Paul Ehrlich
What was the first magic bullet called
Salvarsan 606
Who found that prontosil cured some blood poisoning
Gerhard domagk
Who discovered carbolic acid
Joseph Lister
What is a magic bullet?
A
chemical
cure that attacks
germs
without causing harm
Who helped Fleming study the antibiotic penicillin?
Florey and Chain
What disease did Salvarsan 606 destroy
Syphilis
What did Vesalius state medical students should do
Carry out
dissections
What were the four humours?
blood, phlegm,
yellow bile
,
black bile
What year was the NHS launched
1948
Which medieval healer removed tumours and carry out basic surgery
Barber surgeons
What was the name of scientist which meet and discuss ideas
Royal Society
Where did galen say that blood was manufactured
Liver
Who discovered DNA
Watson
and
Crick
When does the medieval period begin?
1250
When does the medieval period end?
1500
What was Vesalius' book called?
the Fabric of the Human Body
Why did hospitals have to change in the renaissance
Dissolution
of
monasteries
What was the name of the project which mapped the DNA structure of the entire body
Human Genome project
Who found that cholera was a water-born disease
John snow
What did James Simpson discover
Chloroform
When was the Public Health Act?
1875
&
1848
Who controlled education in the medieval period
The
church
Why did books become
cheaper
during the
Renaissance
?
PRINTING PRESS
What was the great stink
Water levels got
lower
in river Thames which revealed the sewage and led to a horrible smell which closed
parliament
lung
cancer is caused by
smoking
Lung cancer
is the second most common cancer in the UK. True or false
True
What could help cancer
Radiotherapy
,
chemotherapy
What were the main belief that caused disease in the medieval period
Four humors
, astrology,miasma,
supernatural
What disease was in the medieval period
Black Death
Who came up with the theory of opposites
Galen
Who carried out amputations and blood-letting
Barber surgeons
What type of treatment would you receive in a medieval hospital
Care not cure
,
prayer
, hospitality
Who improved hookes invention of the microscope
Leeuwenhoek
Who invented the microscope?
Robert Hooke
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