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Imhotep
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founder of Egyptian medicine
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Edwin Smith papyrus
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book Imhotep wrote about anatomical observations (1700 BC)
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Asclepius
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God of healing in Greece
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Hippocrates
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relationship between diet and health
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Pythagorean
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wrote Hippocratic Oath
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Galen
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C7 spinal manipulation
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Roman Empire outlawed...
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public baths
garbage pick up
olympics
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Dark Ages lay healers
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mostly women
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What year was the Black Death/Black Plague?
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1348
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Ambroise Pare
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father of surgery, also used manipulation
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Who took over Aztec empire after smallpox epidemic?
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Hernando Cortex @ Tenochtitlan
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Girolamo Fracastoro
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epidemic diseases caused by spores--transmit infection--germ theory
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invented microscope
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Hans Lippershey, Hans Janssen,
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first person to see red blood cells and human sperm
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Antoni Can Leeuwenhoek
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Father of Pathology
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni
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Franz Mesmer
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uses hypnosis to cure disease
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Pervical Potts
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noted high incidences of scrotal cancer among boys in chimney sweeps. dirty genitals prone to disease
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first smallpox vaccination (weak cowpox)
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Edward Jenner
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average age of death during Industrial Period
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wealthy:36
tradesman:22
laborors:16
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most widespread disease in 19th century
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tuberculosis (TB)
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Edwin Chadwick
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noticed that 1/2 of working children died before age of 5 due to lack of sanitary conditions
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Crawford Williamson Long
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1st surgery under anesthesia (ether)
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Evans Riadore
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importance of nervous energy
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DD Palmer born
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1845
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
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savior of mothers because of doctor handwashing
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Louis Pasteur
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modern bacteriology, pasteurization
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Robert Koch
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modern bacteriology
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Joseph Lister
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sterile surgery
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Rudolf Virchow
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father of modern pathology, first to recognize leukemia
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BJ Palmer born
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1882
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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
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xrays
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Rev. Samuel Weed
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created term chiropractic
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Walter Reed
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Yellow Fever caused by mosquito bite
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Sir Alexander Fleming
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isolation & production of antibiotics--penicillin
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Jonas Edward Salk
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inactivated polio virus to make vaccine (lots of side effects)
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Albert Sabin
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oral polio vaccine based on a live, weakened form of virus, much safer
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Lyme Disease
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fastest growing infectious disease in US
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18th century disease
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smallpox
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