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Apothecary |
Latin term for pharmacist, a place where drugs are sold |
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Bloodletting |
The practice of draining blood; believed to release illness |
George Washington died of this |
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Caduceus |
Often confused as the symbol of the medical feild; staff with two entwined snakes and two wings at the top |
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Dogma |
A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true |
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Hippocratic oath |
An oath taken by physicians concerning the ethics and practice of medicine |
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Inpatient pharmacies |
Pharmacies in hospitals or institutional settings |
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Laudanum |
A mixture of opium and alcohol used to treat dozens of illnesses through the 1800s |
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Leeches |
A type of segmented worm with suckers that attaches to the skin of a host and engorges itself on the host's blood |
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Maggots |
Fly larva that feed on dead tissue; used in medicine to clean wounds not responding to routine antibiotics |
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Medicine |
The science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease |
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Opioid |
Any agent that binds to opioid receptors |
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Opium |
An analgesic that is made from the poppy plant |
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Pharmacist |
Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients on medication use and any interactions it may have with food or other drugs |
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Pharmacy |
A place where drugs are sold |
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Pharmacy clerk |
Person who assists the ohaacist at the front counter of the pharmacy; the person who accepts payment for medications |
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Pharmacy technician |
Person who assists a pharmacist by filling prescriptions and performing other non-discretionary tasks |
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Pharmacy technician certification board (ptcb) |
Issues a national exam for pharmacy technicians |
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Shaman |
A person who holds a high place of honour in a tribe as a healer and spiritual mediator |
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Trephining |
A practice of making an opening in the head to allow disease to leave the body |
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Staff of asclepius |
The symbol of theedical profession; it is a wingless staff with one snake wrapped around it |
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Asclepius |
Greek god associated with healing |
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Hippocrates (460-367 BCE) |
Father of medicine. Taught at the school of medicine on Cos, balance of the 4 qualities; hot, cold, wet, and dry; and the 4 humors; blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile |
First to record patients illnesses and history |
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Aristotle (384-322 BCE) |
Classified humans as animals and described much of human anatomy from obsrvations made from dissection of animals |
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Roger Bacon (1214-1294) |
Philosopher and alchemist, contributed heavely to the modern scientific method |
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Paracelsus (1493-1541) |
Believed in prescribing ineedicine at a time and tracking the dosage and effect. Developed laudanum. |
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Hirudin |
Natural anticoagulant produced by leeches |
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Venesection |
Phlebotomy or drawing blood |
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Gregor Mendel |
Used pea plants to learn how traits are passed on from generation to generation; father of genetics |
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Florence Nightingale |
Nurse who was responsible for improving the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital during the Crimean war, reducing the death count |
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Louis Pasteur |
Invented pasturization and discovered several vaccines including the snthrax vaccine |
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