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Flashcards by shenaii matlock, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by shenaii matlock
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is trepanning? | Trepanning is where if you got a headache, to release the pressure they would drill a hole on your scull |
| Why did the ancestors believed that trepanning could cure illness? | They belived that trepanning, prayer, exorcisms and other beliefs would get rid of the evil spirits |
| What were some other treatments they used to help cure illness in history? | putting leached on your veins would help suck the bad blood out of you. |
| Who invented the first microscope? | Leeuwenhoek |
| What did Leeuwenhoek discover with his microscope? | Animalcules are micro-organisms (little animals) that live in the water. |
| What did Alexander Fleming discover? | Lysozyme and Penicillin |
| What did Elizabeth Kenny discover? | treating polio was to soak the kids in hot water and getting them to move around |
| What did Fred Hollows do? | helped Indigenous Australians with basic eye care. Hes goal was to avoid blindness |
| What did Elizabeth Blackburn? | She discovered how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase |
| What did Struan Sutherland discover? | found a substance which would protect you from the venom from a funnel-web spider |
| What did Jean MacNamara do and discover ? | preventing polio and she made the discovered that there are at least two polio viruses |
| What is Howard Florey best well-know for? | penicillin |
| What were some difficulty's and what impact did Howard Florey have? | 1. Making enough penicillin for the world war two soldiers 2. Because of him we have penicillin today |
| What did Graeme Clark invent ? | the bionic ear to help the deaf people |
| What were some difficulty's and what impact did Graeme Clark have? | 1. trouble trying to make it be able to fit in the human ear 2. now all deaf people can have a bionic ear |
| What is Fiona Wood best known for? | By helping the Bali victims from the bombing by using her spray-on skin |
| What were some difficulty's and what impact did Fiona Wood have? | 1. amount of funding she had for the research and trying to get the stuff to work completly 2. made it possible of there to be no scare |
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