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Beginning of Change in Medicine Flashcards
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- 1Royal SocietyThis is a society through which scientific investigation is promoted. It was founded in 1660.
- 2Andreas VesaliusDeveloped ideas during the Renaissance that challenged older ideas promoted by Galen.
- 3Ambroise ParéDeveloped new more effective methods for treating and healing wounds, while making artificial limbs for soldiers.
- 4William HarveyHe showed that the heart worked as a pump and blood flowed in one-way system around the body, contrary to the ideas of Galen.
- 5Circulation of bloodThe heart works to pump blood around the body, which flows in one-way system.
- 6Thomas SydenhamBorn in England, Sydenham was an early advocate of close observation and recording of disease and illness. i.e. the scientific method
- 7'Royal Hospitals'Five hospitals across London received an endowment of royal funds during the mid-16th century allowing them to treat the sick e.g. St Bartholomew's Hospital
- 8The Great Plague 1665A plague that led to the death of around 100,000 people in London.
- 9John HunterBorn in 1728, Hunter is known for making surgery into a science.
- 10SmallpoxAn acute contagious disease that is caused by the variola virus.
- 11InoculationInvolves introducing a weaker form of a disease into a person's body so they develop resistance against stronger strains of the disease.
- 12VaccinationA form of treatment that involves an injection, which makes the body stronger against a particular infection.
- 13Edward JennerA British scientist who developed a cure for smallpox.
- 14WHOThe World Health Organisation has the primary role to direct international health within the United Nations system.
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