
STUDY GUIDE 2 - Advancements in Health Science
Quiz by Dos Anjos
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Who was one of the first surgeons?
Louis Pasteur was best known for developing _______, a way to keep food from spoiling
Pasteur had a theory about tiny organisms that live in almost everything, which are called:
What does pasteurization involve?
___________ developed the germ theory of disease. He helped popularize the idea that sanitation and cleanliness are just as important to health care as good doctors are.
Before germ theory was popular, doctors used to perform surgery with dirty hands, tools and workstations.
Before germ theory, people believed that illnesses and disease randomly sprung from:
Someone with a closed fracture (broken bone with skin intact) is MORE likely to get an infection than someone with a bleeding, open wound.
Lister encouraged his staff of surgeons to _____ before surgery.
Who developed antibiotics?
Antibiotics are used to treat _____ infections.
Alexander Fleming shared his observation that penicillium ______ attacked certain types of bacteria
Marie Curie worked with ________.
Marie and her husband Pierre discovered two new elements:
__________ and his team developed vaccines for hepatitis B; meningitis; pneumonia; and measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR).
An _______ vaccine administered today still uses the Jeryl Lynn strain that Hilleman sampled from his daughter. (3 letters, no periods, spaces or other punctuation)