History 350 exam 1

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Louis Pastuer (1822-1895)

Creator of rabies vaccine, and proved that anthrax was cause by bacteria

Dr. Ben Rush

Most famous doctor of colonial period

Medical Licenses

by 1900 every state has some sort of regulation on doctors

Robert Koch (1843-1910)

created cure for tuberculosis (sort of)

Charity Hospital in NOLA 1730's

disgustingly dirty hospital, but people went there to train because of their surplus of bodies

Quack doctors

fake doctors, people who claimed more training than they actually had

American Medical Association

founded 1847, comprised of 3 levels (National, State, local)

Gregor Mendel

pea dude, 1880, genetics

Harry Laughin

successor of Charles Davenport as directed of eugenics record office

Clara Barton

Founder of the Red Cross

Dispensarys

Free medical clinics where doctors volunteered their time, students learned. generally very poor patients

Florence Nightingale

(1820-1910)

5 reasons hospitals got better

1) less necessary to see patients at home 2) Increase in demand of medical care 3) Hospitals were becoming safer, not just a place to go die 4) urbanization 5) were beginning to be run for profit

Professionalization (3 steps)

1. Control access to the group 2. Require special training 3. Prove that the services that you are offering are effective

College of Philadelphia

1765, 1st medical school (became upenn)

Medical society of New Jersey

1766, drew up standard of fees

Samuel Thomson (thomsonians)

1769-1843, self taught herbalist, believed cold caused illness, 1820's released book and kit for self healing

Journal of the AMA

1870's, became one of the most influential medical journals

Bateriological Revolution/Germ theory

1870's-1900

American Public health association

1872

American Nurses Association

1896, founded in philly

National Tuberculosis Association

1904, christmas stamps

American Eugenics society

1922, founded by Harry Laughlin

Carrie Buck, Buck vs. bell

1927, court case of woman who was sterilized against her will, court ruled not in her favor

Louisiana Health Department

1st one, 1850's

Miasma

Bad air, deseases came from bad air

Dorothea Dix

Bad ass nurse, insisted her nurses be plain, Superintendent of nurses for the union army

Humoral Theory

Blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile

Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

British surgeon, Was a forefather of having clean operating rooms, instruments, washing hands, etc. not widely accepted until the 1880's (BR)

Wooster Beach

Defected from thomsonians, wanted formal training, was against bleeding and excessive drug use

Anesthesias

Ester and Chloroform

Henry H Goddard

Eugenics proponent, Goddard-Bient test

Elizabeth Blackwell

First woman to receive medical degree

Abraham Flexner

Investigator of medical schools, ranked the medicals schools in order of greatness (Flexner report 1910)

Social medicine

Meaning that all people played a role in medicine in the 17th century. No formal training, just picked up knowledge along the way.

Walter Channing

Midwife from Boston, kicked out of harvard

Martha Ballard

Midwife from Hallowell Maine, well respected, did more than just deliver babies

Janet Alexander

Midwife from Scottland

Charles Davenport

Original director of eugenics office, "breeding humans"

William T Jenkins

Public health official of port of NYC during cholera outbreak 1866

Midwifery

Started as a woman's professor. no formal training just skills learned along the way

Thomas Malthus

believed population would become out of control, because checks of famine, plague, wars were not controlling population and infant mortality rates were at an all time low

Samuel Hahnemann

Thought traditional medicine did more harm than good, "like cures like", self tested many things on himself "provings"

Surgery

With the advent of better anesthesias more surgeries were preformed. Death from infection was still rempant


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