Chapter 1 History And Trends of Health Care

Question 1

Who isolated radium in 1910

Answer 1

Marie Curie

Question 2

Who established the patterns of heredity?

Answer 2

Gregory Mendel

Question 3

Who developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796?

Answer 3

Edward Jenner

Question 4

Who described the circulation of blood to and from the heart?

Answer 4

William Harvey

Question 5

Who began Public health and sanitation systems?

Answer 5

Romans

Question 6

Who discovered x rays in 1895?

Answer 6

William Roentgen

Question 7

Who was the father of Medicine?

Answer 7

Hippocrates

Question 8

Who 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 was prohibited

Answer 10

Dark Ages

Question 11

Who founded the American Red Cross?

Answer 11

Clara Barton

Question 12

Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records

Answer 12

Egyptians

Question 13

Who began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria?

Answer 13

Louis Pateur

Question 14

Who used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion?

Answer 14

Chinese

Question 15

Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens

Answer 15

Robert Knock

Question 16

Who was the founder of modern nursing?

Answer 16

Florence Nightingale

Question 17

Who began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery?

Answer 17

Joseph Lister

Question 18

Who created the first mercury thermometer?

Answer 18

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Question 19

Who developed the polio vaccine in 1952?

Answer 19

Jonas Saulk

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Rhazes