SAS 013 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2024

SAS 013 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers 2024 Linus Pauling - answersickle cell anemia; suggested that people shouldn't mate with one another if both or one of the partners and the sickle cell disease Otzi the Iceman - answerDied 5,200 years ago, his gut contained a deadly pathogen called Helicobacter pylori. His fingernails revealed that he had gone a while with no food Sekhmet - answerwarrior goddess, bringer of disease, provider of cures (severely punished in causes of malpractice) Imhotep - answerThe Egyptian God of Medicine Asclepius - answerGreek god of Medicine Thucydides - answerGreek historian. Considered the greatest historian; shares details on the plague on Athens Hippocrates - answerFather of medicine, Hippocratic oath(ideal conduct for the physicians) Galen - answer-from Pergamum(Turkey) -Roman physician -prolific writer -big fan of Hippocrates -his theories dominated and influenced Western medical science for well over a millennium -dissections and vivisection on animals -physician to gladiators Vesalius - answertranslated Galen's Greek texts into Latin(printing press) Robert Koch - answerGerman doctor who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis Louis Pasteur - answerfood spoilage due to microbes(pasteurization) infectious diseases of silkworms(microbial cause) vaccination Crawford Long - answerfirst to use ether as an anesthetic agent Robert Liston - answer-"The fastest knife in the West End", doctor before anesthesia, -Amputated a leg in under 2.5 minutes (patient died of gangrene) -Amputated in addition the fingers of his assistant, (who died of gangrene) -Slashed through the coat tails of a spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright -300% mortality rate from an amputation -3 people died while amputating one leg Ignaz Semmelweis - answerhand-washing to prevent "childbed fever" Robin Warren and Barry Marshall - answerDiscovered H. pylori in 1984 as the cause of ulcers - Won a noble prize in 2005 - Drank a beaker of H. pylori and developed gastritis that was cured with antibiotics Jonas Salk - answerDeveloped the polio vaccine in 1952 John Enders - answer-Measles vaccine -"More Attenuated Enders' Strain" Malone Mukwende - answerWrote the Book on Diagnosing Disease on Darker Skin Andrew Wakefield - answerstarted anti-vaccine movement, claimed MMR vaccine is linked to autism Joseph Lister - answerfounder of antiseptic surgery Carbolic acid (phenol) Marcello Malpighi - answerGuinea pig used for vivisection/anatomy Sewall Wright - answergenetics, used guinea pigs Selman Waksman - answerdiscovered streptomycin through animal testing Alexander Fleming - answerdiscovered penicillin Henrietta Lacks - answerCancer cells taken without her knowledge, became HeLa cell line. Jesse Gelsinger - answerHad ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD), an X-linked genetic disease of the liver- enrolled in clinical trial for gene therapy -September 13, 1999: injected with an adenovirus carrying a corrected gene to test the safety of the procedure -Died from this(organ failure and brain dead) David Vetter - answer"boy in the plastic bubble"; sufferer of sever combined immunodeficiency (weakened immune system) Leland Stanford - answerDied of typhoid in 1884 at the age of 15 and his parents founded Stanford University in his memory