Hx Of Healthcare Test

Question 1

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 1

Realized colds could be transferred from one person to other

Question 2

Jonas Salk

Answer 2

Discovered polio vaccine using dead polio virus

Question 3

Priestly

Answer 3

Discovered the element of oxygen

Question 4

Landsteiner

Answer 4

Developed blood typing technique

Question 5

What was the term given to soldiers returning home with serious psychiatric conditions?

Answer 5

Shell shock or PTSD

Question 6

What type of insurance provides prepaid healthcare at a flat or fixed rate?

Answer 6

HMO

Question 7

Who was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart?

Answer 7

William Harvey

Question 8

What was illness believed to be caused by in the early ages?

Answer 8

Supernatural spirts

Question 9

Digitalis

Answer 9

From the foxglove plant. Used to slow the heartbeat

Question 10

Quinine

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From the bark of cinchona tree. Controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, prevents malaria

Question 11

Egyptians

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The earliest people to keep accurate health records. Learned the art of splinting fractures.

Question 12

Greeks

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First to study the causes of disease. Discovered that some disease is caused by the lack of sanitation. No autopsies allowed.

Question 13

Romans

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Learned from Greeks and developed a sanitation systems. Brought clean water, built sewers, etc. The beginning of public health and sanitation, hospitals.
First to organize medical care.
Wore death masks.

Question 14

Bubonic Plague

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(The Black Death) killed 60 million people
(The Dark and Middle Ages)

Question 15

Period of rebirth of learning
Med schools and universities were developed
The acceptance of dissection
Printing press developed
Quackery, mass death from childbed fever and disease continued

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The Renaissance

Question 16

Leonardo da Vinci

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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body

Question 17

William Harvey

Answer 17

Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart

Question 18

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

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Invented the microscope
Established that there is life smaller than the eye can see

Question 19

Bariele Fallopius

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Discovered a tube leading from the ovary to uterus (Fallopian Tubes)

Question 20

Bartolommeo Eustachio

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Discovered a tube leading from the ear to the throat (eustachian tube)

Question 21

Rene Laennec

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Invented the stethoscope

Question 22

Joseph Priestley

Answer 22

Discovered the element that of oxygen

Question 23

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 23

Discovered urinary catheter

Question 24

Edward Jenner

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Discovered vaccine for smallpox

Question 25

Nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform

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Drugs to put people into a deep sleep

Question 26

Ignaz Semmelweis

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Identified childbed fever

Question 27

Louis Pasteur

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Discovered the tiny microbes were everywhere

Question 28

Joseph Lister

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Used carbolic acid on wounds and surgical instruments to kill germs. Significantly decreased the infection rate.

Question 29

Ernest von Bergmann

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Developed aseptic

Question 30

Dmitri Ivanovski

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Discovered that some diseases are caused by viruses that can’t be seen with a microscope (microorganisms)

Question 31

Sigmund Freud

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Discovered two conscious and unconscious mind. Mind and body work together. His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry.

Question 32

Koch

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Father of microbiology Discovered anthrax disease and the bacteria for tuberculosis and cholera Received Nobel Peace Prize

Question 33

Roentgen

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Discovered x-rays Won first Nobel Peace Prize in physics for his discovery

Question 34

Paul Ehrlich

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Found treatment for syphilis on the 606th experiment Discovered the effect of medicine on disease

Question 35

Alexander Fleming

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Found the penicillin

Question 36

Jonas Salk

Answer 36

Discovered that a vaccine for polio

Question 37

Florence Nightingale

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Raised standards of nursing and well educated to her school

Question 38

Clara Barton

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Volunteer nurse in the civil war Founded the Red Cross

Question 39

Hippocrates

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Oath of Hippocrates Father of western medicine

Question 40

Elizabeth Blackwell

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First woman to get her medical degree MD in the USA

Question 41

Hooke

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Gave cell its name

Question 42

Mendel

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Father of genetics

Question 43

Watson and Crick

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Discovered structure of DNA

Question 44

Gerhard Domagk

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First available antibiotics (Prontosil) used to treat streptococcus

Question 45

Marie and Pierre Currie

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Radium was discovered by them Developed radiation used in cancer treatments

Question 46

Insulin

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Frederick Banting discovered Harvested and separated from pancreas

Question 47

New approaches of modern medicine

Answer 47

Focus on wellness Genetic research Transplants Alternative Medicine