What were the most significant advances in medicine in the nineteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but students should reflect an understanding of the growing importance of public health to society. X-rays, gamma rays, and radiation were crucial to the understanding of the unseen, as were the discoveries and theories promulgated by John Snow, who advanced the concept that cholera was transmitted by drinking water, thus promoting the public health on a grand scale. Robert Koch established that many diseases such as anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera were caused by bacterial infections, and in France Louis Pasteur's experiments with vaccinations and the heating process that kills microorganisms in milk and juice and bears his name contributed to a new understanding of the sources of disease, which in turn were an influence on John Lister, whose methods of antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid saved countless lives and revolutionized surgery.
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A. peninsulares B. criollos C. hacendados D. mestizos
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A. The Song sought to make China less dependent on foreign trade by raising tariffs. B. The Song were great promoters of trade and commerce, in contrast to Confucian ideals. C. Like previous Chinese dynasties, the Song obtained tax revenue largely from peasant-owned lands. D. The Song promoted a system of barter rather than a money-based economy.
Members of the Federalist party ________
A) advocated states’ rights B) supported the French Revolution C) wanted Thomas Jefferson to be president D) supported a strong national government E) despised centralized economic planning
The proliferation of technical advances and growing wealth of cities in the Abbasid Middle East was most closely matched by which contemporaneous area of civilization?
a. Mississippian North America b. Song China c. Great Zimbabwe d. Western Europe e. Russia