History of Medicine

The most rapid advances in healthcare occurred during the 20th century.

Bifocals for glasses were invented by:

What medical term refers to "old age"?

Treatment is the act or process of process of providing therapy.

The Greeks were the first civilization to:

Who discovered an antibiotic accidentally?

Penicillin is used to treat viruses.

The founder of the American Red Cross in 1881 was:

Ancient man believed illness was caused by:

Hippocrates used dissection in order to draw the human body more realistically.

The first hospitals were: 

Who invented the stethoscope for fear of listening to a woman's chest with his ear?

Florence Nightingale was made head nurse her first year in the hospital.

Hippocrates developed a method to observe the human body and recorded the signs and symptoms of many diseases

Leonardo Da Vinci was right handed and wrote left to right.

Disinfectants and antiseptics were first used in surgery by:

Public health and sanitation systems were first developed by the:

A pandemic of the bubonic plague killed 3/4 of the population of Europe and Asia in the 16th century.