Surgery
Wartime Surgery
Disease Treatments
Medical Education
Miscellaneous
100
The condition where the appendix becomes inflamed, appendectomies are performed to relieve this
What is appendicitis?
100
removing a limb from a person's body because of infection or immobility
What is amputation
100
one of the most feared causes of death in 1900
What is tuberculosis
100
AMA stands for...?
What is the American Medical Association?
200
The fancy word for 'heart surgery'
What is cardio thoracic surgery?
200
a doctor that performs surgery on urgent patients (mostly on soldiers during this time)
What is a trauma surgeon
200
What condition was daily exercise, diet, bleedings, purgings and rest prescribed for?
What is tuberculosis treatment
200
A bachelor's degree in _______ is required to apply for and attend medical school
What is Biology?
300
The organ where the cornea is located, transplants are performed on the cornea
What is the eye?
300
there were few of these to help treat patients because of lack of qualification and willingness to do so.
What is nurses and doctors
300
What parents did to 'speed up' their children's teething process
What is cutting a young child's gums or giving them morphine
300
FSMB stands for
What is the Federation of State Medical Schools
300
used to treat skin conditions and used today to look at the internal structure of a person
What is x-rays
400
Where was the first (or second) successful heart surgery performed (country)
What is Germany?
400
3 out of 5 injuries resulted from this during the Spanish-American war
What is amputation
400
what was an interesting lice treatment?
What is gasoline in a person's hair?
400
This assessed the quality of the education in medical schools, caused some schools to need to merge
What is the Flexner Report?
400
Explain why/how physicians and medicine is different from medicine in 1890-1914
Physicians were generally uneducated or poorly educated, and they made their own medicines and treatment plans.
500
This was used on incision sites to prevent infection
What is Carbolic Acid?
500
a technique used when amputating a limb to preserve muscle
What is the open circular technique
500
used to treat facial cancers and diseases (still used today)
What is radiation therapy (x-rays)
500
The first school in the U.S. to have a residency program
What is Johns Hopkins?
500
What are the stages of x-ray invention?
What is pioneer, dormant, era of progress
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