Ancient & Classical Medicine
Chinese doctors were the first to study this bodily function as a diagnostic tool.
What is the pulse?
In the Middle Ages, this profession also performed surgery, bloodletting, and amputations.
What is a barber?
This discovery by Marie and Pierre Curie led to therapeutic uses in cancer treatment.
What is radium?
She tended to wounded soldiers in the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Factories allowed mass production of medical equipment during this time period.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Egyptians introduced these two concepts to healthcare
What are diagnosis and prognosis?
This Jewish doctor emphasized the importance of a healthy lifestyle during the Middle Ages.
Who is Maimonides?
Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered this hormone that regulates blood sugar.
What is insulin?
She founded the first secular nursing school in London in 1860.
Who is Florence Nightingale
This device, invented in the Industrial Revolution, allows doctors to hear the heart and lungs.
What is the Stethoscope?
This Greek doctor is remembered for his work as a surgeon and writer in the ancient world.
Who is Galen?
This invention allowed medical books to be mass produced.
What is the printing press?
This Scottish scientist discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The first woman to formally study and practice medicine in the U.S.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
This medical advancement allows painless surgery and reduced patient shock.
What is anesthesia?
Romans created the first hospitals and invented these useful surgical devices.
What are surgical instruments?
The microscope was invented and improved during this period of rebirth in science.
What is the Renaissance?
Ignaz Semmelweis promoted this life-saving practice for doctors before delivering babies.
What is handwashing?
She formed the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton
Machines like dialysis and heart-lung bypass act as substitutes for these.
What are organs?
This Greek physician is called the “Father of Medicine.”
Who is Hippocrates?
Scientists began to rely on this systematic process for observation and experimentation.
What is the scientific method?
This 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA transformed genetic medicine.
What is DNA
Her nursing work helped transform sanitation and patient care during war.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Machines and robots are now used to assist in this type of precise surgery.
What is microsurgery?