Study Guide 1 - History of Medicine and Radiologic Technology

Who practiced medicine in combination with religious beliefs; used many of the same drugs still in use today?

egyptians

Who had a very high-quality understanding of anatomy and physiology?

early Greek philosophers

Who was the father of western medicine and developed high standards of ethical

conduct?

Hippocrates

Who recognized the importance of proper sanitation for good public health?

Romans

When was medicine strongly controlled my religious groups and proper sanitation was neglected resulting in many epidemics?

The dark ages - 14th century

What is another name for Black Death?

Great (Bubonic) Plague

Who was the first to demonstrate the function of the heart?

William Harvey

Who developed the first microscope and demonstrated bacteria

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Who introduced the small pox vaccine?

Edward Jenner

Who established the theory that germs cause disease and developed the process of pasteurization?

Louis Pasteur

What is the process that kills heat sensitive organisms in liqui

pasteurization

Who established the bacterial cause of many infections including anthrax, TB, and

cholera?

Robert Koch

Who developed the foundations of nursing

Florence Nightingale

Who discovered penicillin

Alexander Flemming

Who developed a vaccine for poliomyelitis

Jonas Salk

Who discovered DNA?

Francis Crick and James Watson

Devices that improves image quality by reducing scatter?

potter-bucky grid

The vacuum tube that allowed x-ray intensity and energy to be selected separately with great accuracy?

coolidge tube

The device, developed by Snook, allowing for higher kVp and mA levels by decreasing exposure times?

interrupter less transformers

The devices, developed by Rollins, to improve image quality and decrease exposure?

diaphragm

Fluorescent material?

calcium tungstate, zinc calcium sulfate and barium platinocyanide

The device developed by Edison to watch structures in motion

the fluroscope

Type of film that replaced glass plates?

cellulose nitrate

The device, developed by Leonard, commercially available in 1918 that cut exposure times in half?

double-emulsion film

The device, developed by Pupin, which greatly decreased exposure times and improved quality?

intensifying screen

The award presented to Roentgen for the discovery of x-ray?

first nobel prize in physics

Glow?

fluorescence

The original fluorescent material?

barium platinocyanide

The date x-rays were discovered?

November 8 1895

The 1st type of x-ray tube?

crooks cathode tube

The discoverer of the radioactive qualities of radium

Marie Curie

The developer of the Crooke’s tube

William Crookes

The discoverer of the radioactive properties of uranium?

Henri Becquerel

The American inventor of the moving grid?

H. Potter

The German inventor of the stationary grid

Gustav Bucky

The developer of the hot cathode ray tube?

William D. Coolidge

The developer of the high voltage transformer?

H.C. Snook

The Boston dentist who first used collimation and filtration?

William Rollins

The person who performed the first radiograph in the U.S?

GD Frost

The 1st person in the U.S. to be radiographed?

Eddie McCarthy

The inventor of the fluoroscope?

Thomas Edison

The developer of the double emulsion technique?

Charles Leonard

The developer of the 1st intensifying screen?

Michael Pupin

Where the first x-ray was taken in the U.S.?

Dartmouth college

The discoverer of x-rays on November 8, 1895?

William Roentgen

The 1st radiation death in the U.S.?

Clarence Dally