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