Early beginning/Dark Ages
What humans believed causes illness during this time
What are supernatural forces?
these are known as early pharmacies
What are apothecaries?
this medical device that allows us to listen to human bodies is discovered at this time
What is the stethoscope?
this medical invention makes it so surgery is no longer torture
What is anesthesia?
this invention meant that for the first time we could look inside the human body without cutting into it
What is an X-RAY?
an illness that killed 2/3 of the population of Europe, was transmitted by infected fleas on rats
What is bubonic plague?
What is the black death?
these kinds of schools are created at this time
What are medical schools?
this element is discovered, it is also discovered that plants produce it
What is Polio?
Clare Barton, a nurse, founds this organization that allows family members of soldier to learn if they are okay or not
What is the Red Cross?
physicians believed that healing could be done by doing this procedure to release evil spirits
What is bloodletting?
the study of the function and activities of living organisms
What is physiology?
the first female physician in the United States
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Sir Alexander Fleming discovers this drug by accident and saves millions of lives for finding it
What is Penicillin?
this medication meant that Diabetes was no longer a death sentence
What is Insulin?
he is considered to be "the Father of Medicine," famously known for creating the Hippocratic oath
Who is Hippocrates?
the study of the structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms
What is anatomy?
a kind of glasses that allow the person wearing them to see close and far away
What are bifocals?
What is pasteurization?
discovers the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Digitalis, a common medicine that helps the heart comes from this plant
What is the Foxglove plant?
the act or process of cutting into something or taking something apart
What is dissection?
Edward Jenner creates the cure for this infectious disease
What is smallpox?
The founder of modern nursing (hint: Mrs. Ahrens says she is the worst and does not deserve the title)
Frances Crick and James Watson discover the molecular structure of this
What is DNA?