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unit 1 test
history of health care
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Medical
10th Grade
09/15/2010

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Clara Barton
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Founded the American Red Cross In 1881
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Chinese
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Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion.
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Florence Nightengale
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Founder of Modern Nursing
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Banting and Best
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Discovered Insulin to treat diabetes.
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Leonardo De Vinci
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Artist who used dissection to draw the human body.
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Jonas Salk
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Developed the Polio vaccine.
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William Harvey
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Descrived circulation of blood to and from the heart.
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Romans
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Began public health and sanitation systems.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Creted the first mercury thermometer.
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Sir Alexander Fleming
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Discovered penicillin in 1928
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Edward Jenner
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Developed a vaccina for smallpox in 1796.
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Sigmund Freud
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Formed the basis for psycholody and psychiatry.
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Egyptians
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Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records.
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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Discovred X-rays in 1895.
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Louis Pasteur
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Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria.
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Joseph Lister
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Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery.
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Marie Curie
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Isolated radium in 1910
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Primitive Times
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Believed that illness and disease were caused by spirits and demons.
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Rhazes
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Known as Arab Hipocrates; used "animal gut" for suture material.
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Robert Koch
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Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens; isolated the tuberculosis bacteria
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What Disease was identified in 1981 but they didnt find out what viruse caused it until 1984?
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AIDS.
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Blood sucking wormlike creatured used by the Ancient Egyptians to treat illnesses. They are still used today at times for surgery complications and blood clots.
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Leeches
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What did Anton Van Leeuwenhoek invent?
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Microscope
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Nonprofit agency founded by Clara Barton in 1881 that assists victims in emergentcy situations.
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American Red Cross
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Who was the father of Medicine
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Hippocrates.
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3 Historical event in Helath Care that is suppose to occur in the 21st Century
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1. Cures for AIDS, Cancer and Heart disease are found
2.Development of methods to slow againg process or stop aging.
3.Transplants of every organ in the body including the brain.
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