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77 BC- Greek physician who wrote De Materia Medica
What is Dioscorides
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1500 BC- Most complete record of ancient Egyptian medicine. It contained 800 prescriptions using 700 drugs.
What is Papyrus Ebers
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2008- Scientists in Japan created an _______ using four new artificial bases
What is Artificial DNA molecule
100
1996- Highly effective combination drug to treat AIDS
What is HAART Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
100
1996- Dolly the sheep was the first mammal _______ from an adult cell
What is Cloned
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Born in 3000 BC, priest and advisor to the Pharaohs. First physician known by name.
What is Imhotep
200
77 BC- Five books that described over 600 plants and their healing properties
What is De Materia Medica
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1899- _______, acetylsalicylic acid, was developed after complications from salicylic acid, derived from willow trees
What is Aspirin
200
1951- James Watson and Francis Crick identified this structure
What is DNA
200
1785- William Withering published his study of the _______plant and the drug it contained, digitalis, to treat heart disease
What is Foxglove
300
600 BC- Established centers where medicine was practiced. These clinics became training grounds for Greek physicians later.
What is Aesculapius the Greek god of Medicine
300
200 BC- First official Chinese pharmacopeia, listing 365 herbs for use in health treatments
What is Shen Nung Pen Tsao
300
1884- Discovered that cocaine (extracted from coca leaves) was useful for local anesthesia
What is Carl Koller
300
900 AD- wrote Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur, one of the most popular medical textbooks of the Middle Ages
What is Persian Rhazes
300
100 AD- The first great book of Indian Medicine, which described over 500 herbal drugs that had been used in India for centuries
What is Charaka Samhita
400
400 BC- His approach to medicine was grounded in scientific reason and observation
What is Hippocrates
400
Began tasting plants and other natural materials to determine which were poisonous and which were beneficial.
What is Chinese Emperor Shen Nung
400
1846- The first publicized operation was performed using ______ as a general anesthetic
What is Ether
400
1803- Extracted morphine from opium
What is Frederich Serturner
400
1630- _______, also called Jesuit Powder, was successfully used to treat Malaria
What is Quinine
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500 BC- A student of Pythagorus, he saw diseases as a result of a loss of the body’s natural equilibrium
What is Greek Alcmaeon
500
100 BC- Practiced an early form of immunizations by taking small amounts of poisons so he could build up a tolerance to them
What is King Mithridates
500
1796- Successfully developed a vaccine from cowpox disease to inoculate against smallpox
What is Edward Jenner
500
928- Alexander Fleming discovered this drug that changed the world
What is Penicillin
500
1960- This was introduced to the United States market in support of women’s reproductive health
What is Birth Control Pill