Chapter 1: Health and Trends of Health Care

Question 1

Isolated Radium in 1910

Answer 1

Marie Curie

Question 2

Established the patterns of heredity

Answer 2

Gregory Mendel

Question 3

Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796

Answer 3

Edward Jenner

Question 4

Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

Answer 4

William Harvey

Question 5

Began public health and sanitation systems

Answer 5

Romans

Question 6

Discovered X-rays in 1895

Answer 6

William Roentgen

Question 7

The father of medicine

Answer 7

Hippocrates

Question 8

Discovered penicillin in 1928

Answer 8

Sir Alexander Fleming

Question 9

Artist who used dissection to draw the human body

Answer 9

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 10

Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine

Answer 10

Dark Ages

Question 11

Founded the American Red Cross in 1881

Answer 11

Clara Barton

Question 12

Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records

Answer 12

Egyptians

Question 13

Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria

Answer 13

Louis Pasteur

Question 14

Used acupuncture to relieve plan and congestion

Answer 14

Chinese

Question 15

Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens

Answer 15

Robert Koch

Question 16

Founder of modern nursing

Answer 16

Florence Nightingale

Question 17

Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery

Answer 17

Joseph Lister

Question 18

Created the first mercury thermometer

Answer 18

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Question 19

Developed the polio vaccine in 1952

Answer 19

Jonas Salk

Question 20

An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material

Answer 20

Rhazes