Medical History Advancements (Key Terms)
Medical History Advancements
Historical Figures
Historical Figures/Inventions
Medical Terminology
Prefixes
100

The surgical removal of some of a patient's blood for therapeutic purposes

What is Bloodletting

100

During this time period:

1. Tribal witch doctors cared for illness and treated injury

2. Common medicines & procedures of this time period were trepanation and the use of herbs and plants.

What are the Primitive Times?

100

First person to successfully separate conjoined twins.

Who is Ben Carson?

100

Anton Van Leuwenhoek

What is the microscope?

100

What is the medical term for fast or rapid

What is tachy?

200
Public health conditions related to clean drinking water and adequate treatment and disposal of human waste

What are sanitation systems?

200

This group of people helped with these advancements:

1. Priests commonly served as physicians

2. Leeches were used for blood letting 

3. Embalming was also used

Who are the Ancient Egyptians?

200

The founder of modern nursing.

Who is Florence Nightengale?

200

During this time period infection was the leading cause of death. 

What is the 16th Century?

200
What is the medical term for above normal?

What is hyper?

300

A system of integrative medicine that involves pricking the skin or tissue with needles.

What is accupuntue?

300

This group of people helped with these advancements:

1. Acupuncture

2. Herbs

Who are the ancient Chinese?

300

Developed the first bifocals. 

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

300

The invention of this machine was important because it meant that information could now be spread more easily and rapidly. 

What is the printing press?

300

What is the medical term for slow?

What is brady?

400

The procedure of perforating a person's skull

What is trepanation?

400

This group of people helped with these advancements:

1. First to study effects of disease on the human body

2. First to believe that illness had natural causes

Medical Treatments:

Massage therapy, herbal treatments, importance of cleanliness.

Who are the ancient Greeks?

400
Credited for inventing the microscope

Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?

400

The development of this instrument allowed physicians to hear internal sounds of the body.

What is the stethoscope?
400

What is the medical term for many?

What is poly?

500

The most common form of plague in humans during the middle ages.

What is the bubonic plague?

500

This group of people helped with these advancements:

First to establish hospitals & Sanitation Systems

Who are the Ancient Romans?

500

Developed the first vaccine in 1796.

Who is Edward Jenner?

500

Discovered Antibiotics

Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?

500

What is the medical term for around?

What is peri?

600

Prevents and stops the spread of infections in healthcare.

What is infection control?
600

During this time period:

The study and practice of medicine was prohibited

It was marked by the fall of the Roman Empire

Illness was only treated with prayer

What are the Dark Ages?

600

Known as the Father of Microbiology

Proved Microorganisms cause disease

Discovered pasteurization

Developed the first rabies vaccine


Who is Louis Pasteur?

600

Described the structure of DNA

Who are Crick and Watson?

600

The medical prefix supra is used to describe

What is above?

700

The partial sterilization of a product to make it safe for consumption.

What is Pasteurization?

700

During this time period:

The use of alternative, complementary and integrative therapies are used

preventive health

need for affordable and accessible healthcare

telemedicine & gene therapy are used 

Western medicine, complementary and alternative medicine are used

What is the 21st Century?
700

Discovered carbolic acid, first antiseptic during surgeries

Research led to sterilization techniques for surgical equipment

Who is Joseph Lister?

700

Discovered the Polio Vaccine

Who are Salk & Sabin?

700
The medical prefix used to describe away from the body:

What is ab?

800

An infectious bacterial disease characterized by the growth of nodules (tubercles) in the tissues, especially the lungs. 

What is tuberculosis?

800

During this time period:

Advancements in the understanding of A&P were better understood due to dissection of the body

Printing press was developed

What was the Renaissance?

800

Discovered the first stethoscope.


Who is Rene Lennac?

800
As a result of her being sick, immortal cells were discovered

Who is Henrietta Lacks?

800

The medical prefix used to describe bringing something towards the body:

What is ad?

900

Reducing the level or rate of increase in healthcare costs.

What is cost containment?

900

During this time period:

Infection was the leading cause of death

Microscope was invented

Apothecaries provided medications

What are the 16 - 18th Centuries?

900

Published the first anatomy book

Who is Andreas Vesalius?

900

Completed the first successful heart transplant

Who is Christiaan Barnard?

900

The medical prefix for self

What is auto?

1000

Statement of obligations and proper conduct for doctors

What is the Hippocratic Oath?

1000

During this century, robotics, gamification in therapies, healthcare apps and biosensors began to be used.

What is the 21st Century?

1000

First female to become a licensed physician in the US. 

Paved the way for women to attend medical school.

Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?

1000

Tended to soldiers on the Civil War battlefields

Founded the American Red Cross in 1881

Who is Clara Barton?

1000

The medical prefix that means together or with.

What is sym, syn?

1100

The concept of treating the whole person by focusing on physical, social, mental and spiritual wellness.

What is Holistic Care?

1100

During this time period:

Physicians were required to pass an examination to become licensed. 

Vinegar was used to treat wounds.

The bubonic plague killed 75% of the population.

What were the Middle Ages?

1100

This person discovered one of the early microscopes in the 1590's?

Who is Zacharias Janssen?

1100

Discovered the bacteria that caused tuberculosis

Who is Robert Koch?

1100

The medical prefix used to describe the outside of something. 

What is extra?

1200

To design or construct in small size.

What is miniaturization?

1200

During this time period:

ABO blood groups were discovered

antibiotics were discovered

CDC established

Medicare & Medicaid established

What was the 20th Century?

1200

Refined and developed surgical techniques such as the tracheostomy.

Who is John Hunter?

1200

Discovered X-rays

Who is Wilhelm Rontgen?

1200

The medical prefix used to describe backward or behind.

What is retro?

1300

Branch of technology that deals with the manipulation of atoms and molecules.

What is Nanotechnology?

1300
X-rays were discovered during this time period. 

What is the 19th Century?

1300

Early female physician

Wrote a book about diseases and treatments

Who is Abbess Hildegard?

1300

Discovered the conscious and unconscious mind

Who is Sigmund Freud?

1300

The medical prefix used to describe beside or near.

What is para?