Medicine Keywords

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Asclepius
Greek God of healing
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Avicenna
Arabic doctor
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
First female English doctor
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Apothecary
A person who made medicines and ointments
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Antiseptic
Something that fights against sepsis that creates infection
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Anaesthetic
A substance that affects your nervous system so that are less aware of sensation and dont feel pain
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Christian Barnard
Made first successful heart transplant
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Elizabeth Blackwell
First female American doctor
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Emil Behring
First one awarded for his discovery of diptheria antitoxin
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Bevan & Beveridge
Established the NHS free healthcare for everywhere
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Bald Leech book
Anglo Saxon book of herbal remedies
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Black Death
Form of plague which spread through Europe in 14th Century
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BMA ( British Medical Association)
Book that represent doctors
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Edwin Chadwick
Improved sanitation and health care for the poor
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Ernst Chain
Biochemist, who helped developed penicillin
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Francis Crick
Worked structure of DNA
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Marie Curie
Discovered new chemicals and researched tumours
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Cholera
An infection and often fatal bacteria disease of the small intestine. Caused from infected water supplies.Symptoms include vomiting and diarrhoea
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Charm
Instead of going to the doctors were superstitious and wore lucky charms
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Davy Humphrey
Isolated a series of substances. Invented new field of electrochemistry
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Dissection
The cutting up and exmination of a body
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DNA
Deoxyribonnucleic acid, the molecule that genes are made of.
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Paul Ehrlich
Scientist who worked on hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy
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Epidemic
A widespread occurence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time
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Flagellants
A group of people who wandered from town whipping people
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Alexander Fleming
Discovered Penicillin
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Howard Florey
Pharmacologist, helped in development of penicillin
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Fabric of the Body
First accurate book of drawings and diagrams of the human body
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Galen
Discovered four humours, (black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm
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William Harvey
Discovers circulation of blood
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Hippocrates
Hippocratic Oath & Four humours
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Homeopathy
When ailments are treated in a minutes doses
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Humours
Ancient Greek believed they inhabited the body
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Hypnotherapy
Treatment by hypnosis
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Inoculation
Implant a disease into a living things to stimulate disease resistance
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Edward Jenner
Proved inoculation of cow pox
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Robert Koch
Anthrax study and extracting bacteria
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Anthony Leeuwenhoovan
Developed better elnses for microscopes
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Joseph Lister
Antiseptic and carbolic spray
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Lady Grace Mildmay
Created herbal remedies
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Lady Mary Wotley Montague
Brough inoculation from Turkey to Britain
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Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing
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Magic Bullet
The perfect drug to cure a disease with no danger of side effects
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Medical Health Officer
Title for senior government official of a health department
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NHS
National Health Service
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National Insurance Scheme
Communal money for healthcare
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Opposites
Galen and body in balance
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Ambroise Pare
Battlefield Surgeon
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Penicillin
First antibiotic
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Public Health Act
Standards for public health
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Quacks
Old name for doctor
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Rhazes
Wrote books about possible cures
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Wilhem Rontgen
He developed the x-ray
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Mary Seacole
Crimean war nurse
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Ignaz Semmelweiss
Hospital sanitation
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John Snow
Dosage charts
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Smallpox
Contagious disease with fever causing permanent scars
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Sulphonamides
Anything that stops bacteria
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Trephining
The drilling of a hole in a skull
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Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered and made first microscopes
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Andreas Vesalius
First to oppose Galen and anatomy
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Jean de Vigo
Said gunshot wounds were poisonous
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Vaccination
The injection into the body of killed or weakened organisms to give the body resistance against disease
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Watson and Crick
Double helix DNA structure
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Wise Women
Herbal remedies
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X-ray
Examine inner workings of the body from outside
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