Health Science Chapter 1

Clara Barton - answer-Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 Chinese - answer-Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion Maríe Curie - answer-Isolated radium in 1910 Leonardo da Vinci - answer-Artist who used dissection to draw the human body Gregor Mendel - answer-Established the patterns of heredity Edward Jenner - answer-Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 William Harvey - answer-Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart Romans - answer-Began public health and sanitation systems William Roentgen - answer-Discovered X-rays Hippocrates - answer-Father of medicine Sir Alexander Fleming - answer-Discovered penicillin in 1928 Dark ages - answer-Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited Egyptians - answer-Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records Louis Pasteur - answer-Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria Robert Koch - answer-Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens Florence Nightingale - answer-Founder of modern nursing Jospeh Lister - answer-Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery Gabriel Fahrenheit - answer-Created the first mercury thermometer Jonas Salk - answer-Developed the polio vaccine in 1952 Rhazes - answer-An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material ancient people thought the cause of disease and illness - answer-Evil spirits and demons List 4 things Hippocrates stressed to help the body heal itself - answer-1) Good diet 2) fresh air 3) cleanliness 4) exercise the main method used to treat illness and disease - answer-Prayer and divine intervention 4 diseases that shortened the life span of individuals in the Middle Ages - answer-1) smallpox 2) Malaria 3) diphtheria 4) tuberculosis dissection that was a major advance in health care during the Renaissance - answer-Allowed doctors to view organs and connections between different systems significance of invention of the microscope in 1666 - answer-Allowed physicians to see the organisms by the human eye to be seen apothecaries use to make many of the medications in the 17th century - answer-Plants and herbs invention of the stethoscope in 1819 importance - answer-Allowed physicians to listen to internal body sounds federal controls over the drug supply begin in the United States - answer-1848 most popular drug of all time - answer-Antibiotics: Pencilin 2 reasons for the passage of food and drug act of 1906 - answer-For preventing the manufacture sale of poisonous foods and to protect consumers penicillin discovery - answer-1928 first test tube baby born - answer-July 25,1978 scientist first clone sheep - answer-July 5, 1996 named Dolly