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Intro to History of Med/Disease Part One
Midterm flashcards for Intro to History of Med and Disease
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History
Undergraduate 1
10/24/2011
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Ignaz Semmelweis
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Made hand washing a requirement for doctors going to deliver babies
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Richard Allen
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Preacher
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Edward Jenner
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Founded innoculations
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Martha Ballard
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The midwife from A Midwive's Tale
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Cotton Mather
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Founded innoculation
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Benjamin Rush
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Famous for bloodletting and treating yellow fever
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Absalom Jones
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A black clergyman
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James Phipps
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The first person to be innoculated
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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An 18th century feminist that wrote several books and focused on women's rights
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Zabdiel Boylston
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A physican that practiced inoculation on his own son and several other people
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Timothy Pickering
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A Massachusetts politician
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Matthew Clarkson
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A New York politician
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Louis Pasteur
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Founded vaccinations
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William Morton
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The first to publicly demonstrate ether as anesthesia
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James Harvey Blood
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Claim to fame was his "marriage" to Victoria Churchill, the first woman to run for president. He was in the military and ended up in Africa for a goldmine
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