Chap 1: Quiz 1

Question 1

Herodicus (500 BC)

Answer 1

Greek physican and athlete; emphasized diet to better performance

Question 2

Hippocrates (400 BC)

Answer 2

“Father of Preventative Medicine”; Greek physician; accredited with being the first physician who was scientific because he wrote things down; Physicians these days now take the “Hippoocratic oath”

Question 3

Galen (50 AD)

Answer 3

Doctor during the Roman Empire; he treated gladiators; Wrote the Laws of Health; he was the first to write about exercise and its benefits

Question 4

Galens Laws of Health

Answer 4

1. Breathe fresh air 2. Eat proper foods 3. Exercise 4. Get enough sleep 5. Healthy bowel mocements 6. Control emotions

Question 5

Andreas Versalius (1543)

Answer 5

First to develop and print an anatomy textbooks titled “Fabrica Human Corporis” (Fabric of the Human Body)

Question 6

“Fabrica Human Corporis”

Answer 6

First anatomy textbook (author is Andreas Versialius)

Question 7

Sir William Harvey (1578-15__)

Answer 7

Identified the cardiovascular sustem as containing blood. He dissected arms to identify that blood flows one way (from the artery to the vein). He is known as the “Father of the Cardiovascular System”

Question 8

“Father of the Cardiovascular System”

Answer 8

Sir William Harvey

Question 9

“Father of Preventative Medicine”

Answer 9

Hippocrates

Question 10

Example of How Science is not always correct.

Answer 10

Theories about muscle contraction

Question 11

Theories of muscle contraction through time

Answer 11

1574: Hieronymus Fabricius believed that the muscle contractile power resides in its fibrous tendons (not actual muscle fiber) 1660: Anton Van Leewenhoek invented the microscope allowing for direct visualization of muscle fibers 1800s: thought that heat alone caused muscles to contract Late 1800s: Walter Fletcher and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins found that contracting muscle generated lactate 1940-50s: Huxley’s Sliding Filament Theory was adopted

Question 12

Hieronymus Fabricius (1574)

Answer 12

Believed muscle contraction power resided in its fibrous tendons

Question 13

Anton Can Leewenhoek (1660)

Answer 13

Invented the microscope

Question 14

Walter Fletch and Sir Fredrick Gowland Hopkins

Answer 14

Increased lactate was found when muscle are contracting

Question 15

Joseph Priestly (1733-1804)

Answer 15

Phlogiston was created and released during respiration (phlogiston was an unidentified gas)

Question 16

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)

Answer 16

“Father of Modern Chemistry”: Respiration consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide and water (he dispelled Joseph Priestly’s phlogiston theory)

Question 17

“Father of Modern Chemistry”

Answer 17

Antoine Lavoisier

Question 18

Edward Hitchock Jr. (1861-1889)

Answer 18

Was a physician and the first physical education professor (at Amherst College)

Question 19

Edward Hitchock Sr. and Jr. did what?

Answer 19

Wrote a textbook for P.E.: included descriptions of apparatuses that would be used for measurement of strength, endurance, and lung volume, sclaes, diamometer

Question 20

Dr. Austin Flint (1866)

Answer 20

An American physician-physiologist wrote “Physiology of Man” textbook which had a portion specific to exercise

Question 21

Fernand LaGrange (1889)

Answer 21

Wrote the first exercise physiology textbook “Physiology of Bodily Exercise”

Question 22

“Physiology of Bodily Exercise”

Answer 22

First exercise physiology textbook (author is Fernand LaGrange)

Question 23

Otto Meyerhoff & Hans Krebs (1920s)

Answer 23

Did experiments of production of energy

Question 24

John Haldane & A.V. Hill (1920s)

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measured the oxygen consumption of runners (and how many kilocalories are expended when oxygen is consumed)

Question 25

Harvard Fatigue Lab History

Answer 25

Started in 1927 by Lawrence Henderson & D. B. Dill; 1939 was when Sid Robinson did a lot of studies about exercise and aging; 1942 WWII