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Ancient people thought that disease and illness were caused by what?
Evil spirits and demons
Who described the circulation of blood?
William Harvey
Who proved that microorganisms cause disease and pasteurized milk?
Louis Pasteur
Who developed poliomyelitis vaccine in 1953?
Jonas Salk
Who established principles of heredity?
Gregory Mendel
The study of medicine stopped during what period of time?
Dark ages
Who is known as the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek invent?
Microscope
Clara Barton founded what organization in 1881
The American Red Cross
What nurse educator recruited nurses during the Civil War?
Dorothea Dix
Name three achievements of Florence Nightingale.
Established sanitary nursing units
Founder of modern nursing
Began professional education of nursing
Name four diseases that shortened life during the Middle Ages.
Bubonic plague
Small pox
Diphtheria
Tuberculosis
Typhoid
Who were the earliest people known to maintain health records?
Egyptians
What did apothecaries use to make medicines?
Plant and herbs
What scientist developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens?
Robert Koch
What scientists accidentally discovered x-rays in 1895?
William Roentgen
What person started using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery?
Joseph Lister
During the Renaissance there was a rebirth of science, the major source of information came from allowing what form of study?
Dissection
Ancient Chinese believed in the need to:
Cure the spirit and save the soul
Who developed the vaccine for smallpox in 1796?
Edward Jenner
Who discovered penicillin?
Sir Alexander Fleming
Who isolated radium in 1910?
Marie Curie
Who invented the stethoscope?
Rene Laennec
What artist during the Renaissance used dissection to draw the human body?
Leonardo da Vinci
What group of people began public health and sanitation systems?
Romans