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- what did Nightingale use to signifcantly reduce hospital deaths
- disinfectant
- in China in 2000 BC,, who discovered many plants and herbs from chinese countryside
- shen nung
- chemist who lived in 1872 who synthesized many sulfa and antihistamine drugs
- Fourneau
- artificial addition to the body
- prosthesis
- word for the process of treatin
- therapy
- drugs reduce or work against effects of fever
- antipyretics
- word that means "wound" but is usually restricted to physical injuries or those involving the mind
- trauma
- word meaning natural
- physi
- drugs that decrease the functions of particular parts of the body
- depressants
- rickets is a deficiency of what
- vitamin D
- therapy involving the sun
- heliotherapy
- process of applying heat through the body, division of what kind of therapy
- diathermy, thermotherapy
- opposite of thermotherapy (treating problems with the application of cold)
- cryotherapy
- drugs that create a powerful benumbing effect (cocaine)
- narcotics
- drug found in willowbark
- aspirin
- condition of death
- mortality
- drugs that calm anxious or agitated people
- tranquilizers
- war, year that Florence Nightingale served
- Crimean, 1820
- cyborg is short for
- cybernetic organism
- drugs that work against toxins or poisons
- antitoxins
- what is a fast heartrate called
- tachycardia
- chinese word for man that is used as a stimulant or aphrodesiac
- ginseng
- use of electric current in therapy
- electrotherapy
- drugs that reduce the sence of pain
- analgesics
- emetic medicine found by nung and is the word for man-dragon
- mandrake
- who is the founder of chinese pharmacy
- shen nung
- drugs that quiet a patient down, usually given before surgery
- sedatives
- what is a kind of drug that increases sexual desire
- aphrodesiac
- drugs that take away all feeling
- anesthetics
- Mother of modern nursing
- Florence Nightingale
- x-ray treatment
- radiotherapy
- drugs that goad or excite the central nervous system
- stimulants
- heliotherapy is used to combat what disease
- rickets
- what does bid stand for
- bis in die
- condition of illness
- morbidity
- substance released from injured cells during tissue inflammation
- histamine
- suffix meaning treatment
- iatrics