1.2 Origins of Biomedical History

Question 1

Hippocrates

Answer 1

c.460 - c375 BC
Father of Medicine
Created the Hippocratic Oath

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

384 - 322 BC
Theorized that complex structures are built from a smaller variety of simple components

Question 3

Claudius Galen

Answer 3

c130 - c200 AD
Created works that were influential for centuries

Question 4

Maimonides

Answer 4

1135 - 1204 AD
Renowned Jewish doctor, served as Saladin’s physician.

Question 5

Ibn Sina/Avicenna

Answer 5

980 - 1037 AD
Galen of Islam

Question 6

Andreas Vesalius

Answer 6

1514 - 1564 AD
Anatomy teacher in Italy who studied dissection

Question 7

William Harvey

Answer 7

1578 - 1657 AD
Studied blood circulation and the heart

Question 8

Michael Servetus

Answer 8

1511-1553 AD
Studied blood circulation and the heart

Question 9

Robert Hooke

Answer 9

1635 - 1703 AD
Invented the compound microscope

Question 10

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 10

1632 - 1723 AD
Invented the simple (single-lens) microscope

Question 11

Matthias Schleiden

Answer 11

1804 - 1881 AD
A botanist who worked with cells

Question 12

Theodor Schwann

Answer 12

1810 - 1882 AD
A zoologist who worked with cells

Question 13

Cell Theory

Answer 13

One of the most important breakthroughs in biomedical history; all body functions are now interpreted as the effects of cellular activity