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Hx Med Final Ch 10-13
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Undergraduate 3
10/22/2008

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Mercuric Chloride
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"corrosive sublimate;" change from antisepsis to asepsis
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Steam sterilization
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disinfecting metal instruments without rusting them
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Halsted
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rubber gloves
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von Bergmann
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hemilaryngectomy
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Billroth
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performed joint, bone, abdominal, and esophageal surgeries; adopted Nightingale like practice for treatment of pts and nurses; used temp to follow infection after surgery; studied sepsis and named strep and gliacoccus; worked with polyps and tumor development; wrote General Surgery Pathology and Therapeutics and Coccobacteria Septica; first gastrectomy (Bi.. I/II procedures)
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Diptheria
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causes pharyngitis, gray leathery membrane dev. on tonsils and palate
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Anti-toxins
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caused problems with allergies, serum sickness, potency, and effectiveness
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Iditarod Sled Race
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celebration of anti-toxin delivery
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Koch
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ID tuberculosis; fake vaccine was a failure; found Anthrax was caused by spores; made rules for what can cause infectious disease; ID org. that causes cholera
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Typhus
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spread by fleas and live and is easily vaccinated against; killed 2x as many Brits in Boer War as the battle
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Scarlet fever
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only produces disease in humans
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Metchnikoff
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discovered phagocytes at the Pasteur Institute
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Erlich
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disc. assoc. of anti-toxin/toxin combinations and treatment of stainable disease; treated syphilis with Salvarsan aka 606
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Pasteur
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dev. pasteurization for beer, wine, and milk; presented Germ Theory of Disease (refuted spon. generation); disc. vaccine for chicken cholera; studied rabies and made fixed virus from rabbit rabies; incoulated by injecting progressivly stronger forms; dev. anthrax vaccine
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Meister
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first to be vaccinated for rabies
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Bernard
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founded experimental medicine
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the Coris
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disc. glucose-glycogen cycle and another cycle named after them
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William Mayo
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medical degree from Indiana Medical College; second ovarian tumor removal on a kitchen table
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Osler
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most prominent teacher of medicine; served on prestigious faculties; wrote principles and Practice of Medicine
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Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School
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founded and aided in reforming American medicine
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Will Mayo Jr
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NY post-grad study; saved a woman's life with the Murphy Button; became pelvic and abdominal doctor
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Charles Mayo
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became head and neck doctor
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Senn fired ____
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Oschner fired by ____
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Faraday
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ID benzene; Law of Electrolysis; Principle of Induction; Effect named after him
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Maxwell
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predicted EM fields travel through space in waves; c=EM speed; 3 primary colors = foundation of vision
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Crookes
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disc. Thallium; invented ___ Tube
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Roentgen
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disc. X-ray
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Coolidge
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invented Coolidge Tube
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Graham and Cole
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invented ___-___ test for gallstones
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Cannon
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changed to safer Barium for humans
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Houndsfield
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created CAT scan
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Curie
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disc. Radium (=cancer tx)
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