Ancient Medicine
This civilization believed illness was punishment from the gods.
What is Ancient Egypt (or Mesopotamia)?
During the Middle Ages, medicine was closely tied to this institution.
What is the church (religion)?
This invention spread medical knowledge quickly during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press?
Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine for this disease.
What is smallpox?
This scientist discovered penicillin in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
These early texts written on papyrus scrolls are among the first medical writings.
What are Papyrus scrolls?
This deadly disease, also called the Black Death, killed millions in the 14th century.
What is the bubonic plague?
This artist’s anatomy drawings improved understanding of the human body.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch proved this theory about the cause of disease.
What is the germ theory?
These imaging tools include X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs.
What are medical imaging technologies?
Herbs, spells, and crude surgical tools were common in this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Egypt?
True or False: Many major medical advances occurred during the Middle Ages.
What is False?
This scientist improved human anatomy by dissecting and studying cadavers.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
The use of ether and chloroform in surgery marked the development of what?
What is anesthesia?
This 20th-century advancement allowed organs to be replaced in patients.
What are organ transplants?
Known as the "Father of Medicine," this Greek physician emphasized natural causes of illness.
Who is Hippocrates?
Superstition and religion often replaced this scientific approach to illness.
What is observation or scientific study?
The Renaissance marked a shift from superstition to this type of learning.
What is scientific study (or reason/observation)?
This woman founded modern nursing during the 19th century.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This project mapped human DNA and revolutionized genetics.
What is the Human Genome Project?
This Roman physician advanced anatomy studies and influenced medicine for centuries.
Who is Galen?
Name one major consequence of the Black Death on European society.
What is a huge population decline (or social/economic upheaval)?
Which period came directly after the Middle Ages in medical history?
What is the Renaissance?
Public health reforms in the 1800s were meant to improve these two things.
What are sanitation and hospital conditions (public health)?
Name one advancement in 21st-century medicine such as telemedicine, robotic surgery, or vaccines for this pandemic.
What is COVID-19?