CLCS 38300- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 80 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Clcs 384: ancient western medicine vocab list logos: word, reason, rational account mythos: myth, traditional account naive realism: claim that reality is exactly as perceived by the senses. What you see depends on what you look for logos: word, reason, rational account mythos: myth, traditional account naive realism: claim that reality is exactly as perceived by the senses. Cholera epidemic in yemen: 4,000 cases per day, 1 million cases in total, 600,000 children diagnosed. Epidemic- a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community. 7 cholera pandemics have occurred over the last 2 decades. Miasma: symptoms caused by bad or polluted air. John snow: identified the broad street pump as the source for cholera disease in britain. Waldemar mordecai haffkine: discovers vibrio cholerae, develops vaccine for cholera. Louis pasteur: discovered that microorganisms cause disease, performed sterility experiment to prove this. Anton van leeuwenhoek: designs simple microscope, sees little beasties .
