People in Medicine HIstory

Question 1

Ancient Egyptians

Answer 1

Earliest people to keep health records

Question 2

Ancient Chinese

Answer 2

curing the spirit and nurturing the whole body

Question 3

Hippocrates

Answer 3

known as the father of medicine due to his careful observations and note keeping

Question 4

Ancient Romans

Answer 4

Disease to poor sanitation

Question 5

Michelangelo and DaVinci

Answer 5

Human dissection and illustrations and printed materials used by students in medical universities

Question 6

William Harvey

Answer 6

First to correctly describe blood’s circulation through the body

Question 7

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 7

Invents microscope

Question 8

Gabriel Farenheit

Answer 8

Made first reliable thermometers

Question 9

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 9

Launched first American Medical school

Invented bifocals

Question 10

Edward Jenner

Answer 10

Smallpox vaccine

Question 11

Rene Laennec

Answer 11

Invented stethoscope

Question 12

Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 12

First woman in America to earn M.D. degree

Question 13

Florence Nightingdale

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Formal training for nurses

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Joseph Lister

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Used disinfectants during surgery to prevent infection

Question 15

Clara Barton

Answer 15

Founded American red cross

Question 16

Robert Koch

Answer 16

Developed culture plate method to identify pathogens

Question 17

Louis Pasteur

Answer 17

Proved microorganisms cause diseases invented process of pasteurization and vaccinations.

Question 18

Gregory Mendel

Answer 18

Concept of DNA

Basis of genes

Question 19

Dmitri Ivanofski

Answer 19

First to discover viruses

Question 20

Wilhelm Roentgen

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Discovery of X-ray beams

Question 21

Marie Curie

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isolated radium

Question 22

Sigmund Freud

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Freudian slip
Psychology
psychoanalytic techniques

Question 23

Alexander Flemming

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Discovery of penicilin

Question 24

Watson and Crick

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Determination of structure of DNA

Question 25

Rosalind Frankline

Answer 25

Structure of DNA | X-ray diffraction

Question 26

Rhazes

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Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material

Question 27

Ancient Greeks

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good diet and cleanliness prevent disease

Question 28

primitive times

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disease and illness caused by evil spirits and demons

Question 29

renaissance

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rebirth of science and medicine, body drawn accurately

Question 30

Middle ages

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medical universities developed, bubonic plague killed 3/4 of population in Europe and Asia