History of Medicine Part 2

How are Flory and Chain connected to Alexander Flemming?

After mapping the DNA found in the Rous Sarcoma Virus, Bishop and Varmus discovered...

What causes Scurvy?

What did sailors eat to avoid Scurvy?

What disease was killing millions of people in the late 1700s?

When the mice were given only carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, they got _____.

Which is NOT true about viruses?

Why do they culture bacteria at the doctor's office if you have an infection?

What was the first chemotherapeutic drug and sulfa drug?

Which is NOT a way to get cancer?

Are all antibiotics successful of treating all types of bacterial infections?

Frederick Banting worked with which animals?

How do vaccinations work?

Why were more women dying with the doctors than with the midwives?

What process kills germs in our drinks?

Who discovered the first vaccination?

Where do diabetic patients get their insulin from now?

When was germ theory discovered?

Beri Beri is caused by a lack of...

What is a retrovirus?

How do proto oncogenes turn into oncogenes?

How did Flemming discover Penicillin?

Who discovered Penicillin?

After the vaccination, your immune system builds up...

When he gave them ________, they got better. He called these _______________.

How many years does it take to show symptoms of aids?

What is on the surface of every cell or virus?

Who discovered Prontosil and how does it work?

How does Penicillin work?

What do antibodies do?

What was the first war to have antibiotics and Sulfa Drugs?

Why do we have Proto Oncogenes if they can turn into Oncogenes?

Figuring out the order of nitrogenous bases is called genome mapping.

Why were Sailors getting Beri Beri?

What did Jenner inoculate the young boy with to prevent him from getting small pox?

What did Dr. Gallo and Dr. Montagnier discover about AIDS?

What were the death rates for the midwives and doctors?

If cancer metastasized, that means it did NOT spread.

How does AIDS kill you?

What is a tumor causing gene?

In Vienna in 1846, Child Bed Fever was killing many women at the hospital. Why?

After Semmelweis started using chlorine solution, the number of deaths dropped from 7% to __.

Which individual DID NOT play a role in the discovery of vitamins?

Who discovered germ theory?

Frederick Hopkins was working with ____________.

______________ was a doctor who had his residents rinse their hands in/with _____________.

Who discovered that diabetic patients needed insulin?

What is cancer?

Malignant tumors steal nutrients from surrounding cells.

Accessory Food Factors are Vitamins which are needed for fighting infection and reg. metabolism

Are antibodies specific to antigens?

In 1922, a young boy with diabetes was given insulin from a ______.

Penicillium Notatum is a....

What is a benefit of AIDS?