Medicine Through Time Individuals

Question 1

Who discovered the blood circulatory system?

Accepted Answer

William Harvey

Question 2

Who helped tackle the problem of pain during surgery?

Accepted Answer

James Simpson

Question 3

Who built on Pasteur's work, by identifying the individual bacteria that cause diseases?

Accepted Answer

Robert Koch

Question 4

Which of these people was government Minister of Health?

Accepted Answer

Aneurin Bevan

Question 5

Which pair carried out the first human trials of penicillin on a policeman in 1941?

Accepted Answer

Florey and Chain

Question 6

Who wrote Notes on Nursing?

Accepted Answer

Florence Nightingale

Question 7

Who developed the first vaccination in the 1790s?

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

Question 8

What did Paul Ehrlich develop?

Accepted Answer

Magic bullets

Question 9

Who used the first antiseptic, carbolic acid, during an operation in 1865?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 10

Who observed "animalcules" (bacteria) under a microscope in the 1600s?

Accepted Answer

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Question 11

Which of these individuals was around the earliest?

Accepted Answer

William Harvey

Question 12

Who first came up with the theory of the Four Humours?

Accepted Answer

Hippocrates

Question 13

Who wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body in 1543?

Accepted Answer

Vesalius

Question 14

Who was responsible for the closure of many Church-run hospitals?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 15

Who carried out the Broad Street pump experiment?

Accepted Answer

John Snow

Question 16

Which of these individuals was not around during the Renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 17

Which of these people is from the Industrial Revolution period?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 18

Which of these people was not related to the development of penicillin?

Accepted Answer

James Watson

Question 19

Who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform gas in 1847?

Accepted Answer

James Simpson

Question 20

Who was known as the "English Hippocrates"?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Sydenham

Question 21

Which of these people was not a doctor?

Accepted Answer

Edwin Chadwick

Question 22

Whose work inspired Joseph Lister's work on antiseptics?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 23

Who noticed penicillin mould by chance?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Fleming

Question 24

Who discovered x-rays in 1895?

Accepted Answer

Wilhelm Roentgen

Question 25

Which of these people was involved in the establishment of the NHS?

Accepted Answer

Aneurin Bevan

Question 26

Who published his germ theory in 1861?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 27

Who helped tackle the problem of infection during surgery?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 28

Who developed the Theory of Opposites?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 29

Which of these people was not involved in the discovery of DNA?

Accepted Answer

Howard Florey

Question 30

Whose 1942 report suggested that the government set up a national health service?

Accepted Answer

William Beveridge

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