Law & Ethics Ancient History MAT 128

Question 1

Medical asepsis has its foundation in me. Techniques used today in surgery are thanks to me!

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 2

Who invented the stethoscope?

Accepted Answer

Laennec

Question 3

Who was Asclepius?

Accepted Answer

Greek god of Healing

Question 4

All of those pesky, minute "bugs" can't hide from me and my trusty microscope.

Accepted Answer

Leeuwenhoek

Question 5

Where was the earliest evidence of the practice of medicine found?

Accepted Answer

Egypt

Question 6

I am credited for both inventing the rabies vaccine and making milk safe by pasteurizing it.

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 7

I am the founder of the world's first birth control clinic.

Accepted Answer

Alleta Jacobs

Question 8

Barber-surgeons had a trademark. What was it?

Accepted Answer

Bloody towels wrapped around white poles, Red poles with white towels wrapped around them.

Question 9

I am the founder of modern nursing.

Accepted Answer

Florence Nightingale

Question 10

Unlike those before me, I performed the first successful heart transplant.

Accepted Answer

Christian Barnard

Question 11

What is the medical term for a disease that is widespread?

Accepted Answer

Pandemic

Question 12

Red blood cells are pretty, but I enjoyed studying white blood cells.

Accepted Answer

Elias Metchnikoff

Question 13

Doctor's can see inside you thanks to my invention of x-rays.

Accepted Answer

Willhelm von Roentgen

Question 14

I developed the first mercury thermometer. How was I to know it was toxic!

Accepted Answer

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Question 15

I developed the first vaccination for cowpox.

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

Question 16

I cultured mold to help develop the antibiotic penicillin.

Accepted Answer

Fleming

Question 17

The "Father of Medicine" was who?

Accepted Answer

Hippocrates

Question 18

Chloroform is no match for my ether when it comes to anesthetics used for surgery.

Accepted Answer

W. T. G. Morton

Question 19

Ladies you have me to thank for developing the first Pap Test.

Accepted Answer

George Papanicolaou

Question 20

"Girl Power" !!! I was the first woman doctor in the United States.

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 21

I helped diabetics by discovering insulin.

Accepted Answer

Frederick Banting

Question 22

"Nightie Night" I was the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic.

Accepted Answer

James Simpson

Question 23

The world's first nurses and hospitals were part of this civilization

Accepted Answer

Hindu

Question 24

I started the American Red Cross

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton

Question 25

The medical symbol is known as a

Accepted Answer

Caduceus

Question 26

These two diseases of medieval times caused the greatest widespread devastation.

Accepted Answer

Leprosy and Bubonic Plague

Question 27

In Latin, the word "doctor" means what?

Accepted Answer

Teacher

Question 28

I discovered artery blood flows away from your heart & blood in your veins to your heart.

Accepted Answer

William Harvey

Question 29

In ancient times, a hole was sometimes cut into the skull to remove demons. This is called?

Accepted Answer

Trephining

Question 30

Galen believed that these 4 fluids or humors of life caused disease if the were't balanced.

Accepted Answer

Blood, Phlegm, Black Bile, and Yellow Bile

Law & Ethics Ancient History MAT 128

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Law & Ethics Ancient History MAT 128

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