Miasma theory Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What characterized medicine before the late 19th century? Correct Answer-palliative and aggressive interventions what were some common medical interventions before the 19th? Correct Answer-blood letting vomitting enema who defined the four humors theory? when was it defined? what are the four humors? Correct Answer-Galon 150 A.D black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood letting contrast the treatment required by the "four humors" theory of disease and the germ theory of disease. ...

What characterized medicine before the late 19th century? Correct Answer-the four humors//paliative or aggressive What were some common medical interventions? Correct Answer-Palliative and aggressive interventions - non-curative but relieves symptoms, often did more harm than good; make you bleed, urinate, deficate Who defined the "four humors" theory and when was it defined? Correct Answer-Galen in 150 A.D What are the four humors? Correct Answer-black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and ...

b. Secondary chamber - ANSWER-afterburner; smaller than primary chamber; has a burner that burns gases, smoke and particulates; often referred to as afterburner chamber Classification of waste d. Type 4: - ANSWERhuman and animal remains; carcasses, organs, solid organic waste from hospitals, labs, abattoirs, and animal pounds. Classification of waste c. Type 1-3: - ANSWERrubbish, refuse, garbage . Heat: in cremation- - ANSWERheat initiate from a gas burner. Burner is used to raise the...

Germ Theory of Disease - Correct Answer-idea that infectious diseases are caused by pathogens Early ideas about disease transmission - Correct Answer-punishment for sins, miasma, hexes/spells, spontaneous generation miasma - Correct Answer-a highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor Louis Pasteur - Correct Answer-A French chemist, this man discovered that heat could kill bacteria that otherwise spoiled liquids including milk, wine, and beer. -disproved spontaneous generation -vacc...

203 Exam 3 Section#5 CREMATION Questions & Answeb. Secondary chamber - ANSWER-afterburner; smaller than primary chamber; has a burner that burns gases, smoke and particulates; often referred to as afterburner chamber Classification of waste d. Type 4: - ANSWERhuman and animal remains; carcasses, organs, solid organic waste from hospitals, labs, abattoirs, and animal pounds. Classification of waste c. Type 1-3: - ANSWERrubbish, refuse, garbage . Heat: in cremation- - ANSWERheat initiat...

UTA Microbiology Exam 1 (Ch 1, 2, 3, 7); Questions and Answers % Correct Miasma Theory Correct answer-Theory that bad air caused illness. Leprosy in the Bible Correct answer-practice of quarantining people with leprosy suggesting that people understood that dz's could be communicable. Leprosy is communicable, it is also a dz that progresses slowly meaning that people were likely quarantined after they had already spread the dz to others.

isolation - Correct Answer-= Define the germ theory of disease and describe the historical advances toward that knowledge. - Correct Answer-Germ theory: Infectious diseases are caused by pathogens (germs are microbes/organisms that cause infectious disease, also known as a pathogen) Summarize how infectious diseases are different than other diseases - Correct Answer-Infectious diseases are spread person to person, by vector, airborne, etc. whereas diseases such as diabetes are not cont...

MICROBIOLOGY EXAM 1 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% what is microbiology - correct answer the study of microorganisms what is a microorganism - correct answer living bodies that are not visible to the naked eye what is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek known for - correct answer father of microbiology and first to observe microorganism what did leeuwenhoek develop - correct answer lenses capable of seeing microscopic world what did leeuwenhoek do in 1677 - correct answer described microbes as ...

BSNC 1020 – Midterm Exam; Modules 1-3- Questions and Answers 100% Solved Who discovered the Miasma Theory? A. Florence Nightingale B. Jeanne Mance C. Mary Snively D. Marguerite d'Youville Correct answer A. Florence Nightingale Who founded Hotel Dieu? A. Mary Snively B. Florence Nightingale C. Jeanne Mance D. Harriet Sutherland Correct answer C. Jeanne Mance

Methods of Disposition Exam 3Reverence for dead, Believed cremation began in Greece in 1000 BC, Believed in shadowy afterlife and Elysian Fields - correct answer The ancient Greeks... Separation of the soul from the body, and they believed the remnants of cremation held personal and spiritual significance and should be entombed properly - correct answer Greeks believed cremation provided... Large pyres were built and remains were returned home for ceremony - correct answer When Gre...