Medicine Through Time Individuals 1250-1900

Question 1

Who noticed penicillin mould by chance?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Fleming

Question 2

Who carried out the Broad Street pump experiment?

Accepted Answer

John Snow

Question 3

Who developed the first vaccination in the 1790s?

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Vesalius

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Hippocrates

Question 6

Who published his germ theory in 1861?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 8

Which of these individuals was around the earliest?

Accepted Answer

William Harvey

Question 9

Who wrote Notes on Nursing?

Accepted Answer

Florence Nightingale

Question 10

Who was known as the "English Hippocrates"?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Sydenham

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Robert Koch

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII

Question 14

Who helped tackle the problem of pain during surgery?

Accepted Answer

James Simpson

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Question 16

Who discovered the blood circulatory system?

Accepted Answer

William Harvey

Question 17

Which of these people is from the Industrial Revolution period?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 18

Who developed the Theory of Opposites?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 19

Who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform gas in 1847?

Accepted Answer

James Simpson

Question 20

Who helped tackle the problem of infection during surgery?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 21

Whose work inspired Joseph Lister's work on antiseptics?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 22

Which of these people was not a doctor?

Accepted Answer

Edwin Chadwick

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