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History of Surgical Technology Exam Study
Guide
Pasteur (1850) - answer✔Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology
Jenner (1800) - answer✔Invented the smallpox vaccine
Vesalius (1514-1564) - answer✔Father of modern gross anatomy; preformed dissections on human
cadavers himself; used observation & illustrators to create permanent records; changed the whole
approach to anatomical studies.
Pare (1500) - answer✔began to ligate arteries after amputations; stopped cauterizing wound with hot
irons and oil.
Galen (A.D. 500) - answer✔First great anatomist; controlled thought, unchallenged for 1500 years;
biology made to serve theology
Celsus (25000 B.C.) - answer✔Described the signs of inflamation
Cuneiform Script (4000 B.c.) - answer✔First anatomical descriptions of human organs tablets from
Nineveh
Imhotep (2500 B.C.) - answer✔Revered Egyptian physician (declared divine); wrote an early 'book' on
surgery
Code of Hammurabi (2000 B.C.) - answer✔medical practices of the day described; some reflect real
insight into disease; most are religious in nature
Vedas (Hindu) (1500 B.C.) - answer✔Correlates 'sweet smell' of urine with a specific disease
Homer (1000 B.C.) - answer✔early greek history/myth provides a view of military medicine of the day
DeBakey (1950) - answer✔Developed the first ventricular assist pump
Cooley (1950) - answer✔perfected the heart-lung machine; preformed 1st U.S. heart transplant and 1st
total artificial heart implan
Cushing (1900) - answer✔father of neurosurgery; reduced mortality rate for meningiomas from 96% to
5%
11/05/2024 12:06 PM
History of Surgical Technology Exam Study
Guide
Pasteur (1850) - answer✔Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology
Jenner (1800) - answer✔Invented the smallpox vaccine
Vesalius (1514-1564) - answer✔Father of modern gross anatomy; preformed dissections on human
cadavers himself; used observation & illustrators to create permanent records; changed the whole
approach to anatomical studies.
Pare (1500) - answer✔began to ligate arteries after amputations; stopped cauterizing wound with hot
irons and oil.
Galen (A.D. 500) - answer✔First great anatomist; controlled thought, unchallenged for 1500 years;
biology made to serve theology
Celsus (25000 B.C.) - answer✔Described the signs of inflamation
Cuneiform Script (4000 B.c.) - answer✔First anatomical descriptions of human organs tablets from
Nineveh
Imhotep (2500 B.C.) - answer✔Revered Egyptian physician (declared divine); wrote an early 'book' on
surgery
Code of Hammurabi (2000 B.C.) - answer✔medical practices of the day described; some reflect real
insight into disease; most are religious in nature
Vedas (Hindu) (1500 B.C.) - answer✔Correlates 'sweet smell' of urine with a specific disease
Homer (1000 B.C.) - answer✔early greek history/myth provides a view of military medicine of the day
DeBakey (1950) - answer✔Developed the first ventricular assist pump
Cooley (1950) - answer✔perfected the heart-lung machine; preformed 1st U.S. heart transplant and 1st
total artificial heart implan
Cushing (1900) - answer✔father of neurosurgery; reduced mortality rate for meningiomas from 96% to
5%
