Dates and names

Question 1

Egyptian medicine

Answer 1

Imhotep; physician of King Djoser

3000- 2500BC

Question 2

Indian medicine
Ayurveda(knowledge of life). 
Dhanvantari from the god Brahma.
Charaka the physician.
Atreya
Sushruta the surgeon.

Answer 2

Ayurvedic medicine 800BC-1000AD.

Question 3

Mesopotamian medicine

Answer 3

2100BC
Code of Hammurabi by Babylonian king- Hammurabi
1728-1686BC

Question 4

Greek medicine
Panacea, goddess of cure. Hygea, goddess of prevention.
Panacea and Hygea were Aesculapius’ daughters

Answer 4

Aesculapius
(1200BC)
Hippocrates, father of medicine, wrote Hippocratic oath.
(460-370BC)

Question 5

Roman medicine

Answer 5

Galen
(130-205AD)
Vesalius (1543) and physiologist William Harvey(1628) refuted his teachings.

Question 6

Dark ages of medicine

Answer 6

500-1500AD

Question 7

Arabic system of medicine(Unani)

Answer 7

Abu Beer/Rhazes(826-925AD)

Ibn Sina/ Avicenna(980-1037AD)

Question 8

Paracelsus

Answer 8

In Switzerland

Question 9

Hieronymous Fracastorius

Answer 9

1483-1553

Question 10

Andreas Vesalius

Answer 10

1514-1564

Worked extensively on dissection of cadaver.

Question 11

William Harvey

Answer 11

1578- 1657

English physician to King James and King Charles.

Question 12

Robert Hooke

Answer 12

1635-1703

Coined cell in 1665. Magnification of X50.

Question 13

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 13

1632-1723

Viewed animacules with X270 magnification in 1670.

Question 14

James Lind

Answer 14

1747. British naval physician. Did the first randomized, controlled trial.

Question 15

Edward Jenner

Answer 15

1749-1823
Variolation
Vaccination
Small pox
Temple of vaccinia for free small pox vaccination.

Question 16

Benjamin Jesty

Answer 16

1739-1816

1774, vaccinate wife and kids

Question 17

Edwin Chadwick

Answer 17

1800-1890
Lawyer and secretary.
In 1832 and, investigated health and living conditions of London workers, then whole country in 1842.
First british public health act 1848 due to his work.

Question 18

Lemuel Shattuck

Answer 18

1850
Statistician
Result of Massachusetts sanitary commission.

Question 19

William Farr

Answer 19

1807-1883

Study of morbidity(sickness), and mortality(death)

Question 20

John Snow

Answer 20

1813-1858. British physician, father of Epidemiology.

Gave the Queen chloroform during birth in 1853 & 1857.

Question 21

William Budd

Answer 21

1811-1880

Worked extensively on typhoid fever and cholera, helped to avoid epidemic outbreaks.

Question 22

Discovery of typhoid fever

Answer 22

Karl Joseph Ebert in 1880 discovered bacillus.
Daniel Elmer Salmon found bacillus in hogs that died of hog fever.
Mary Mallon(Typhoid Mary) migrated to USA from Ireland in 1884 and by 1907, she had caused over 3000 typhoid infections, and she kept on till she died in 1938.

Question 23

Antibiotics

Answer 23

Discovery of salversan(effective against syphilis) by Albert Bertheim and Paul Ehrlich in 1907.
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the antibacterial properties of penicillium notatum.

Question 24

Tubercle bacillus and Vibrio cholera

Answer 24

Robert Koch(1843-1910) discovered tubercle bacillus in 1882, Vibrio cholera in 1884. 
Filipino Pacini(1812-1883) discovered Vibrio cholera in 1854.

Question 25

Thermometer

Answer 25

Gabriel Fahrenheit invented thermometer in 1714.

Question 26

Ignaz Simelweiz

Answer 26

Discovered that doctors transferred infective germs that caused puerperal sepsis from dissection rooms to women in labour rooms.

Question 27

Rene Laennec

Answer 27

Invented first stethoscope

Question 28

X-ray

Answer 28

Invented by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen who won Nobel in Physics in 1901.

Question 29

Eradication of small pox

Answer 29

1980

Question 30

Rudolf Virchow

Answer 30

(1848) Pioneer in socialisation of medicine

Question 31

Development of social medicine

Answer 31

Alfred Grotjahn
Rene Sand
John Ryle

Question 32

Dr Baikie introduced quinine

Answer 32

In 1854 expedition to Nigeria.

Question 33

First clinic in Nigeria

Answer 33

In Obosi, Anambra established by CMS in 1880.

Others in Onitsha and Ibadan in 1886.

Question 34

First hospital in Nigeria: Sacred Heart Hospital

Answer 34

In 1885 by Roman Catholic Church in Abeokuta.

Question 35

West Africa frontier force

First full fledged govt hospital- St Margaret Hospital

Answer 35

In Lokoja, for soldiers by Lord Luggard.

In Calabar in 1889.

Question 36

Medical pioneers in Nigeria.

Answer 36

Trained in Britain, James Africanus Beal Horton and William Broughton Davis

Question 37

First medical school in Nigeria

Kano Medical school

Answer 37

Yaba Medical College in 1939.

In 1955.
Both only trained medical assistants and assistant medical officers.

Question 38

Dr Isaac Ladipo Oluwole

Answer 38

1892-1953
Father of public health in Nigeria.
Studied medicine on Glasgow (1913-1918).
Doctor of public health in 1922. Founded school of hygiene for traning of sanitary inspectors in Lagos.
Appointed Frist African Assistant Medical Officer of health in Lagos in 1925.
Reorganised the sanitary inspection procedure in the port to control the spread of bubonic plague(1924-1930). He reclaimed many swamps for the control of malaria. Helped establish the mercy dispensary and expanded its scope to include treatment of women and children. He trained visitors, to visit patients at home after discharge to teach them how to take their drugs and maintain environmental cleanliness. Was awarded substantive MOH in 1936. Awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1940.

Question 39

Dr Russel Aliyu Barau Dillon

Answer 39

Studied medicine in University of Birmingham, UK. Joined colonial service in 1940 as MO rising to SMO in 1953 and then PMO in 1960. Appointed Federal Commissioner of Mines and Power in 1967, then Federal Commissioner for transport in 1971.