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                             History of Medicine
                       Vocabulary from Lectures

Use this vocabulary to study for the quizzes and as information to support test essays.

Paleopathology
coprolites
treponemas
paleodontology
trephination, trephinning

naturalistic vs. supernaturalistic
shaman

Ebers Papyrus
Isis, Seth, Ta-urt
natron
Imhotep
principle of similars
polypharmacy

cuneiform
Nippur Tablet
Hammurabi's Code
haruspection

Yaweh
leprosy
"plague"
kosher

Vedas
Vedic medicine
Ayurvedic medicine
samhitas
Five Elements
Seven Substances
Rasa
marmas
couching
alchemy

Aztec
Maya
inca
Columbian Exchange
syphilis
chicha
peyote, datura
coca
psychoactive

oracle bones
four elements theory
systematic correspondence
yin/yang
chi
anatonical systems of five
viscera
triple burner
acupuncture
Nei Ching
moxibustion
Confucianism
medical ethics
Shunyu I

Homer
Homeric gods
Iliad
Thucydides Syndrome, Plague of Athens
Asklepios
Asklepian cure
caduceus
philosopher-physicians
Hippocrates of Cos
Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocratic Oath
humoral theory, four humors
phlegm
black bile
diagnosis/prognosis
palpation
auscultation

Hippocratic dietetic treatment
town physician
Aristotle

Library at Alexandria
vivisection
Erisistratus
Herophilus
Dogmatists
Systematists
Methodists
Aesclepiades
Empiricists

Etruscans
patriarch
Pliny and Cato
Rationalists
Pneumatists
pneuma
hospital
aqueducts
public health
Cloaca Maxima
lead poisoning

pharmacology
polypharmacy
Galen
malaria

Cosmas and Damian
Plague of Justinian

Rhazes
Caliphate (Eastern and Western)
Arab/Islamic
Avicenna
Canon on Medicine
Jundi-Shapur
Baghdad
Salerno
"Six Non-Naturals"
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitatum

hysteria
somatic
Royal Touch
Christian charity
relics
St. Hildegard of Bingham
monastic medicine
Benedictine Rule
scriptoria

University of Paris
Oxford University
Bologna
Montpelier
Padua
Theodoric
empirics
apothecary
Knights Hospitallers
Dame Trotula
midwifery

lunacy
leprosy
Hansen's Disease
mycobacterium leprae
English Sweating Sickness
Dancing Mania

Black Death
Yersinia pestis
buboes, bubonic
pneumonic plague
septicemic plague
Flagellants
Peasant Revolt

Post-midterm

Leonardo da Vinci
Vesalius
De humani corporis  (On the Fabric of the Human Body)
Paracelsus
alchemy and astrology
uroscopy and urinalysis
Pare'
cautery, cauterization
prosthesis
William Harvey
De motu cordis  (Anatomical Treatise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals)
Fracastoro
De contagionibus  (On Contagion)
fomites

"Three Arrows of God"
famine
forensics
English Poor Laws of 1601

ergot, ergotism
gangrene
Salem
"epidemic constitution"
Fracastoro
seminaria
Leeuwenhoek
typhus
scarlet fever
rickets
scurvy
Ramazinni

virgin population
smallpox
syphilis
"French Disease" etc
treponemas
yaws
mercury cure

iatrochemistry
iatrophysics
heroic medicine
vitalists
Boerhaave
theriac
microscope
Leeuwenhoek
thermometer
Borelli
stethoscope
Laennec
William Harvey
De motu cordis
embryology
theory of preformation
capillary action
lymph system

Thomas Sydenham
"English Hippocrates"
simples
gout
Edward Jenner
smallpox
Lady Mary Montagu
"Turkish Method'
variolation
Rev. Cotton Mather
Ben Franklin
vaccination
cowpox
 

William Tuke
York Retreat
Philippe Pinel
foundlings
dispensary
John Howard

Johann Peter Frank
Mai
"womb to tomb" approach
enlightened despotism
Sanitary Movement
Bacteriological Revolution
microbiology
bacteriology
virology
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur
medical police

Mycobacterium tuberculosae
Louis Pasteur
Pasteur Institute
rabies
fermentation
immunization vs. vaccination
sterilization vs disinfection
streptococcus
staphylococcus
pneumococcus
anthrax

Jeremy Bentham
Philosophical Radicals
Edwin Chadwick
Chadwick Report

yellow fever
Philadelphia 1793
Vibrio cholerae
oral/fecal contamination
six pandemics

John Snow and Broad Street Pump
"Great White Plague"
"Captain of the Men of Death"
tuberculosis, mesenteric and osteological
consumption, phthisis
pulmonary tuberculosis

sanitarium, sanitaria
diphtheria
scarlet fever
typhoid
typhus
Salmonella
Panama Canal

William Gorgas
Walter Reed
mosquito erradication programs
Polynesia and Hawaii
culture shock
imperialism, colonialism
British Raj
cholera and plague

Zaire, Belgian Congo
Trypanosomaiasis, "African Sleeping Sickness"
"Third Army"

heroic measures, heroic medicine
calomel
American Medical Association
Homeopathy
Allopathy
principle of similars
law of infintessimals
Hahneman
Hydropathy
"The Water Cure"
Preissnitz
spas, "taking the cure"
Osteopathy
Andrew Still
Chiropractic

Seventh Day Adventists
Ellen  White
"Great Disappointment"
John Kellog and Battle Creek Sanitarium
Christian Scientists
Mary Baker Eddy
Phineas Quimby
Christian Science Monitor
"practitionaers" and "nurses"

patent vs proprietary medicines
" Daffy's Elixir", 1708
"Tuscarora Rice", 1711
"John Hill's American Balm"
Thomas Dyott
medicine show
P.T. Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute"
"Metallic Tractors", "Electric Belts", etc
phrenology
"Radam's Microbe Killer"
"Seven Barks"
"Vegetable"
"Indian"
Kickapoo Indian Oil
"Quaker"
 Dr. Drake's Canton Chinese Hair Cure"
"Panacea"
testimonials
Lydia Pinkham
"Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound"
Neurasthenia
Dr. George Beard
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act of 1938
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1962
"Carter's Little (Liver) Pills"
Thalidomide

Knights Hospitallers
St. Vincent de Paul and Sisters of Charity
Kaiserwerth Hospitals
Florence Nightingale
Crimean War
Scutari
Elizabeth Blackwell
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
Geneva Convention
Dunant
International Red Cross

Nitrous Oxide, "laughing gas"
Horace Wells
Ether
William Horton
Chloroform
James Simpson
antisepsis
sepsis, "hospital fever"
"laudable pus"
gas gangrene
Semmelweis
Lister
Listerian Principle
carbolic acid
sulfa
penicillin
Alexander Fleming
blood transfusion
blood banking
Rh factor
blood typing
MASH units
helicopter evacuation

Utilitarianism
Categorical Imperative
Moral Theology
Justice
Non-maleficence
Beneficence
Paternalism
Distributive Justice
Autonomy
Living Will