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  • Name 2 people that thought washing your hands was a good idea
    Semmelweis and Joseph Lister
  • What did Hippocrates think was important to do to help patients?
    looking carefully at patients
  • What made other doctors hate Simmelweis?
    They did not like his ideas.
  • Name 3 things Romans used 1 million litres of water for
    drinking, washing and cleaning the streets and drains
  • What do nurses use today to protect themselves from making others sick?
    disposable gloves
  • What did Romans think of cleanliness?
    It's good for people.
  • Where did Semmelweis work (Job and Country)?
    He worked in a big hospital in Hungary.
  • What’s the first thing you should do if you cut yourself?
    clean the cut but wash your hands first
  • What happened when Simmelweis died?
    He was forgotten and disgraced.
  • What do disposable gloves do?
    protect patients from germs
  • What is the name of the first known doctor?
    Imhotep
  • Where was Hippocrates from?
    Greece
  • Who could use the baths in Rome?
    Romans (Everyone in Rome)
  • What did Avicenna work out?
    He wrote a book about medicine
  • Where was Avicenna from?
    Persia
  • What did Lister do to hospital instruments?
    He made sure all hospital instruments were properly cleaned before and after operations.
  • What didn’t European doctors do?
    They did not wash their hands after they had touched sick people.
  • What happened to people after they had an operation in the time of Lister?
    Fewer people died after operations.
  • Who did the first known doctor treat?
    King Zoser
  • What did doctors in the middle east pioneer?
    They set up the first hosital.
  • Where did the first known dentist work?
    Pakistan
  • What did Florence Nightingale give her nurses?
    instructions 
  • What did European doctors do to look at diseases?
    They used microscope to look at germs.