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1. What year did Imhotep (Egyptian) described the diagnosis and treatment of 200 dis- eases 2600 BC 2. What year did Al- cmaeon of croton char- acterize the difference between veins and ar- teries 500 BC 3. What is another name for Hippocrates? The father of medicine 4. What year was Hip- pocrates born? 460 BC 5. When did Diocles write the first known book anatomy book? 300 BC 6. When did Herophilus begin the study of the nervous system 280 BC 7. When is Galen born? 130 AD 8. Who is Galen? A greek physician to Roman emperors and gladia- tors 9. when did Pedanius Dioscoriddes write "de material medica" 60 AD (30 -90 AD) 10. When did Rhazes iden- tify smallpox? 910 11. Avicena Who wrote "The Book Of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine" ? 12. When where "The Book Of Healing" and "The Canon of Medi- cine" written? 13. Who invented specta- cles? 14. When were spectacles invented? 15. Who dissected corpses? 16. When did Leonar- do DaVinci dissect corpses? 17. Where were the find- ings on human anato- my published in? 18. Who wrote "De Fabrica Corporis Humani"? 19. When was "De Fabri- ca Corporis Humani" published? 20. Who invented the mi- croscope? 21. When was the micro- scope invented 1010 Roger Bacon 1249 Leonardo DaVinci 1489 "De Fabrica Corporis Humani" Versalius 1543 Zacharias Janssen 1590 22. William Harvey "An anatomical study of the motion of the heart and of the blood in animals" is pub- lished by who? 23. "An anatomical study of the motion of the heart and of the blood in animals" is the basis of what 24. When was the "An anatomical study of the motion of the heart and of the blood in an- imals" published? 25. When do experi- ments with canine blood transfusion take place? 26. Who is credited for ex- periments with canine blood transfusion 27. When were blood cells discovered? 28. Who discovered blood cells? 29. When did observation of bacteria take place? 30. Who started observa- tion of bacteria? future research on blood vessels, arteries and the heart 1628 1656 Sir Christopher Wren 1670 Anton Leeuwenhoek 1683 Anton Leeuwenhoek 31. 1701 The first smallpox in- oculation was given in? 32. Who gave the first Giacomo Pylarini smallpox inoculation? 33. When was "treatise of 1747 the scurvy" published 34. Who published "trea- James Lind tise of the scurvy"? 35. What did the "treatise That citrus fruits prevent scurvy of the scurvy" state? 36. When was the first suc- 1763 cessful appendectomy performed? 37. Who preformed the Claudia Aymand first successful appen- dectomy? 38. When was the develop- 1796 ment of vaccination for smallpox 39. development of vac- Edward Jenner cination for smallpox was done by 40. When did the develop- 1796 ment of smallpox vac- cine occur? 41. What did Sir Humphrey Anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide Davy discover? 42. 1800 When did the anesthet- ic properties of nitrous oxide get discovered? 43. Who invented the stethoscope? 44. When was the stetho- scope invented? 45. Who did the first suc- cessful transfusion of human blood? Rene Laennec 1816 James Blundell 46. When was the first suc- In 1818 cessful transfusion of blood preformed? 47. Ether is used as a? General anesthetic 48. Who was ether used by? 49. When was ether used as anesthetic? 50. Nitrous oxide is used as a? 51. Who used nitrous ox- ide as anesthetic? 52. Medical Assistant is what? 53. Who determines the amount of aid needed from a medical assis- tant? Crawford W. Long 1842 Anesthetic Dr. Horace Wells Health care provider that performs medical, admin- istrative tasks to support health professional Physician 54. What are some routine tasks for a medical as- sistant? Vital signs, recoding info, administration medica- tion, preparing medical supplies, sterilization, col- lection of fluids and tissue for testing. 55. What is sterilization? Destruction of all living microorganisms by chemi- cal disinfectants or boiling 56. How long should you boil teams for disin- fecting? 57. What are some admin- istrative duties of a MA? 58. When should a MA call an ambulance if an emergency? 59. Can a MA give emer- gency care 60. Medication that is eas- ily addictive requires a what? 20 min Greetings, record keeping, answering telephone, filing insurance claims, scheduling appointments, billing If there is a serious condition, heart attack, stroke, shock, hemorrhage, if no doctor or nurse present. Yes, Prescription 61. What can a MA do in re- Instruct, administer, call in prescriptions, authorize gards to medication? 62. The MA should always have what? 63. How must the MA look/act in public? 64. What is caused by a first impression? refills. Basic knowledge of laws and ethics of medicine. Good manners, neat, well groomed, A positive or negative psychological effect on pa- tient 65. Put at ease, and explain