Medicine Past and Present
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Created by:
cbaisa on November 22, 2010
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open court reading comprehension
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 which is a detail and not a main idea from the story | The black plague occurred in the 14th century |
| What did the ancient Egyptians use to heal wounds? | moldy bread |
| why did some Native Americans chew willow tree bark? | It helped to reduce pain |
| what made Edward Jenner guess that the body developed a way to fight smallpox? | If the your body heal from small pox that you would never get the disease again. |
| when Louis Pasteur heated a flask of water what did he learn? | Bacteria could be killed |
| why did Pasteur inject healthy animals with the bacteria called anthrax? | To prove that the bacteria caused the disease |
| what did Pasteur's research finally prove to people? | That bacteria and germs is what causes disease and infection |
| why did surgeons begin sterilizing their equipment before their operations? | to get rid of germs that may cause disease |
| Edward Jenner discovered that people infected with cowpox could not catch? | smallpox |
| William Harvey made the connection between the heart and ? | blood circulation |
| What does plaque mean in the story? | disease |
| To be infected means? | to have germs |
| what is a microbe? | very tiny germ |
| Antibodies are? | substance that destroy germs |
| What are bacteria? | microscopic creatures |
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