| A | B |
|---|
| Chinese | used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion |
| Egyptians | earliest people known to maintain health records |
| Claudis Galen | physician who believed the body is regulated by 4 humors |
| Hippocrates | the father of medicine |
| Romans | began public health and sanitation systems |
| Georgios Papanicolaou | invented the pap smear |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Artist who used dissection to draw the human body |
| Dark Ages | emphasis on soul saving; study of medicine prohibited |
| Renaissance | rebirth of the science of medicine |
| Rhazes | Arab physician who used animal gut for suture material |
| Andreas Vesalius | published first anatomy book |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit | created the first mercury thermometer |
| William Harvey | Described the circulation of blood |
| Edward Jenner | developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 |
| Ambrose Pare | called the father of modern surgery |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | invented the microscope |
| Joseph Lister | began using disinfectant and antiseptics iduring surgery |
| Gregory Mendel | established the patterns of heredity |
| Florence Nightingale | founder of modern nursing |
| Louis Pasteur | began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria |
| William Roentgen | discovered x-rays in 1895 |
| Christian Bernard | performed the first successful heart transplant |
| Francis Crick and James Watson | described how DNA carries genetic material |
| Marie Curie | isolated radium in 1910 |
| Sir Alexander Fleming | discovered penicillin in 1929 |
| Jonas Salk | developed a polio vaccine in 1952 |
| James Lind | developed a cure for scurvy |
| Alternative therapies | treatments used in place of biomedical therapies |
| complementary therapies | treatments used along with biomedical therapies |
| geriatric care | care for the elderly |
| telemedicine | using video, audio, and computers for providing health care |
| Rene Laennec | invented the stethoscope |
| Dmitri Ivanovski | discovered viruses |
| primitive | ancient or prehistoric |
| predators | organisms or beings that destroy |
| superstitious | trusting in magic or chance |
| trepanning | removing circular sections of bone |
| intravenously | directly into a vein |
| anatomy | science of the structure of animals and plants |
| symptom | a sign or indication of something |
| ethics | a system of moral principles |
| custodial | watching rather than seeking to cure |
| vaccines | weakened pathogen given to build immunity |
| dissection | act of process of dividing |
| physiology | science of the functions of living organisms |
| quackery | practice of pretending to cure disease |
| inpatient | in a hospital for more than 24 hours |
| outpatient | patient discharged within 23 hours |
| extended care facilities | help with the ADLs for people of any age |
| assisted-living facility | provides, meals , care, and support |
| home health care | care in a patients home |
| hospice | care during the last stages of terminal illness |
| homeopathy | focuses on the body's abillity to heal itself |
| prognosis | opinion about the likely outcome of disease |
| diagnosis | identifying the nature or cause of a disease |
| epidemic | disease that affects populations |
| pandemic | disease that affects the world |
| acute care facilities | hospitals, emergency clinics, and trauma units |
| Clara Barton | founded the American Red Cross |
| gneral practitioner | physician who treats a variety of health problems |
