History Of Toxicology

Question 1

When was the Trojan war and what chemical warfare was used?

Answer 1

1300-1100BC

Arrows coated in poison

Question 2

What happened in 600 BC?

Answer 2

Deliberate mass poisonings - Athens and Sicyon poisoned water in Kirrha

Question 3

When did Mithridates start his search for theriac?

Answer 3

100BC

Question 4

What did Sulla do in 32 BC?

Answer 4

Passed the first laws on poisoning, the sale, possession and purchase of poisonous substances

Question 5

What did Nicander do?

Answer 5

Published the oldest book on poisons

Question 6

What did Maimonides do and when?

Answer 6

Published a book on poisons and their antidotes

Dark ages

Question 7

What term did Paracelsus coin?

Answer 7

The term of the central dogma or toxicology

Question 8

What did Ramazzin find?

Answer 8

Occupational medicine

Question 9

What and when did Percival Pott do?

Answer 9

1775

Scrotal cancer and chemistry sweeps

Question 10

Who was the founder of modern toxicology?

Answer 10

Orfila

Question 11

What did Thackrah do and when?

Answer 11

1931 - industrial hygiene

Question 12

Who found the correlation between putting coal tar on rabbits ears and cancer?

Answer 12

Yamagiwa and ichikawa

1915

Question 13

Who discovered rubella?

Answer 13

Gregg

Question 14

What did Schrader discover?

Answer 14

Organophosphate insecticides and nerve gas agents

Question 15

When was the smog and when did the clean air act be passed?

Answer 15

1952

1956

Question 16

When and why did Rachel Carson write a book?

Answer 16

1950 about the DDT killing wildlife

Silent spring

Question 17

When was the thalidomide disaster?

Answer 17

1950-1960

Question 18

What happened in 1500 BC?

Answer 18

First date in Ebers Papyrus