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Dr. Fleming discovered a mold that contained antibacterial secretions during this period of time.
What is the Twentieth Century?
During the 20th century this discovery involved the identification of genes.
What is DNA?
During this period the microscope was invented
What is the Renaissance period?
During this era Arab doctors made significant contributions to medicine.
What is the Dark and Middle Ages?
The term for the practice of removing blood from the body to restore balance and eliminate disease
What is Bloodletting?
The first woman to become a medical doctor in the US joined her sister to found Women's Medical College in NY.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Florence Nightingale demonstrated the critical role of nurses, hygiene, and nutrition in patient care.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This group of people were the first to study the pulse as means of diagnosis.
Who are the Chinese?
This inventor has been called the father of microscopy.
Who is Van Leeuwenhoek?
This German physicist developed x-radiation.
Who is Wilhelm Rontgen?
This Jewish philosopher of the middle ages described numerous medical conditions, including asthma, diabetes, hepatitis, and pneumonia.
Who is Maimonides?
During this time period scientists began using the scientific method
What was the Renaissanceera?
In this time period Edward Jenner developed a small pox vaccine.
When is the Industrial Revolution?
Terrible epidemics killed millions of people during this period
What is the Dark and Middle Ages (400 CE - 1400CE)
The use of medicines that contain weakened or dead bacteria or viruses to build immunity and prevent disease
What are Vaccines?
Surgical instruments such as forceps and scalpels were invented
What was the Roman era?
In this era the invention of the stethoscope allowed doctors to listen more closely to a patient's heart.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The Hippocratic Oath was written during this peoples period.
What is The Greeks?
This Group of people first performed Cataract surgery.
Who are the Romans?
Term used for an outbreak of a disease that affects many people and spreads rapidly
What is an epidemic?
This group of people introduced concepts of diagnosis and prognosis.
Who are the Egyptians?
During this time period public health laws were established to help control the spread of disease
What was the Industrial Revolution?
This doctor was the first to person to believe that diseases and conditions were caused naturally and not by superstition
Who was Hippocrates?
Under the rule of the Huns (400BC - Common Era) medical science slowed dramatically in this Empire.
Who are the Romans?
In 1847, this Hungarian doctor was criticized for touting the health benefits of handwashing
Who is Semmelweis?