questions and answers
Prehistoric time period - ANSWER>>8000-3000 BC
Trepanation - ANSWER>>Drilling holes in the skull
less spread of disease in prehistoric times due to - ANSWER>>small communities
and nomadic lifestyles
Ancient Egyptian time period - ANSWER>>3000 BC-AD 500
What group kept health records - ANSWER>>ancient Egyptians
prohibited from dissection because of religion - ANSWER>>ancient Egyptians and
ancient Chinese
AE used to open up blocked channels in the body - ANSWER>>bloodletting or
leeches
AE used to treat burns - ANSWER>>tannic acid
ancient Chinese time period - ANSWER>>1700 BC-AD 200
AC monitored to determine condition of body - ANSWER>>pulse
AC used to relieve pain and congestion - ANSWER>>acupuncture
ancient greeks time period - ANSWER>>1200 BC-200 BC
who was the father of medicine - ANSWER>>Hippocrates
hippocrates emphasized - ANSWER>>prognosis
Humorism - ANSWER>>The belief that health was maintained by a balance of the
four humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
,Hippocratic Oath - ANSWER>>serves as the moral basis for many medical
regulations and guidelines still in use today
ancient romans time period - ANSWER>>753 BC-AD 410
AR emphasized (ancient romans) - ANSWER>>preventative health care
AR built - ANSWER>>public health and sanitation systems
AR aqueducts - ANSWER>>carry clean water to cities
AR sewers (ancient romans) - ANSWER>>carry waste away from cities
AR developed the first - ANSWER>>hospitals and medical specialists
medieval times period - ANSWER>>AD 500-AD 1300
what suspended medical progress in the medieval times - ANSWER>>fall of the
Roman Empire
MT custodial care was given in (medieval times) - ANSWER>>monasteries
Canon of Medicine was written by - ANSWER>>Persian physician Avicenna
canon of medicine explained - ANSWER>>the causes of many common diseases
and set new standard for medical practice throughout much of Europe and Asia
renaissance time period - ANSWER>>AD 1300-AD 1600
R pandemic (renaissance) - ANSWER>>an infectious disease that affects entire
continents
R further progressed the way we learn - ANSWER>>the printing press
Andreas Vesalius - ANSWER>>revealed information on the human body through
dissection
, time period that brought the establishment of the first medical universities -
ANSWER>>the renaissance
William Harvey - ANSWER>>Described the circulation of blood to and from the
heart
Modern times inventions included (4) - ANSWER>>microscope, mercury
thermometer, stethoscope, sphygmomanometer
Freud - ANSWER>>formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry
Fleming - ANSWER>>discovered penicillin
Crick and Watson - ANSWER>>discovered the structure of DNA
Christian Bernard - ANSWER>>First human heart transplant
Edward Jenner - ANSWER>>smallpox vaccine
Louis Pasteur - ANSWER>>pasteurization and germ theory
Robert Koch - ANSWER>>Father of microbiology
Salk and Sabin - ANSWER>>Polio vaccine
Founder of modern nursing - ANSWER>>Florence Nightingale
Joseph Lister - ANSWER>>Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery
MASH - ANSWER>>mobile army surgical hospital
factors contributing to growth in health care (3) - ANSWER>>innovative medical
technology, aging population, longer life expectancies