Time periods
Created the first sanitation system
Roman
Founding the American red-cross
Clara Barton
Used for controlling and preventing major diseases
Vaccines
Who discovered penicillin?
Sir Alexander Fleming
What was the Black Death?
A bubonic plague was one of the most destructive pandemics that killed a large portion of Europe's population.
Trepanation (drilling holes in the skull)
Primative times
Known as the father of medicine
Hippocrates
Revolutionized the treatment of bacterial infections
Antibiotics
What was the Germ theory?
The understanding that germs and microorganisms could cause disease.
What was the most common illness during the dark ages?
Smallpox
Horrible disease that killed over calf the population
Bubonic Plague
The first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Face timing or sending the doctor a picture
Telemedicine
When and what was the first organ transplant?
The first successful organ transplant was a kidney transplant in 1954.
What was a common treatment for a variety of conditions?
Bloodletting
What culture invented the microscope
The Renaissance
Founder of modern nursing
Florence Nightingale
when was the invention of X-rays
1895
When and what was invented to treat diabetes?
Insulin was created to treat diabetes in 1922.
What were herbal remedies?
Plant-based medicines used for treatment.
Ancient Egyptians embalming practices helped them to understand what
Human Anatomy
Created the worlds first vaccine for smallpox
Edward Jenner
Development for preforming safe surgery
Anesthesia
What are CT and MRI scans? When were they invented?
What was the four humors theory?
A medical theory based on the idea that the body contained certain liquids that caused disease.