Doctors/Nurses

Question 1

Alexander Fleming

Answer 1

1881-1955 Scottish biologist, pharmacologist y botanist - Discovered penicillin in 1928 - Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945

Question 2

Clara Barton

Answer 2

1821-1912 American nurse y teacher from MA - Founded the American Red Cross in 1881 - Provided her self-taught nursing care during the Civil War, y became known as the “Angel of the Battlefield”

Question 3

Deepak Chopra

Answer 3

1947- Indian-American author, doctor, y alt medicine advocate - Promotes Ayurvedic methods, transcendental meditation, y “quantum healing” - Wrote The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994-NYT Best Seller 72 weeks); The Book of Secrets (2004)

Question 4

Edward Jenner

Answer 4

1749-1823 English physician y scientist - Developed world’s first vaccine, for smallpox, in 1796 - Called the Father of Immunology, y is said to have saved more lives than any other human

Question 5

Florence Nightingale

Answer 5

1820-1910 English nurse, social reformer, y statistician - Considered the founder of modern nursing - Managed y trained nurses during Crimean War (1853-56) - Became a hero of Victorian England, y was known as the “Lady of the Lamp” for her nighttime rounds tending to soldiers - Established world’s 1st secular nursing school in 1860 at King’s College London

Question 6

Henry Gray

Answer 6

1827-1861 English anatomist y surgeon - Published Gray’s Anatomy in 1858 - Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at age 25 - Died at age 34 from smallpox

Question 7

John Harvey Kellog

Answer 7

1852-1943 American doctor, nutritionist, y eugenicist from MI - Managed the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a renowned health spa founded by members of the 7th Day Adventist Church, from 1876-1943 - Invented the 1st breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, originally intended as an anaphrodisiac - Promoted vegetarianism, nutrition, enemas, y abstinence - Co-founded the Race Betterment Foundation in 1906 to promote eugenics

Question 8

Jonas Salk

Answer 8

1914-1995 American medical researcher y virologist from NYC - Developed polio vaccine in 1957 - Said of it, “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

Question 9

Joseph Lister

Answer 9

1827-1912 British surgeon - Pioneer of antiseptic surgery - Used carbolic acid (aka phenol) to sterilize tools y wounds - Worked at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Question 10

William DeVries

Answer 10

1943- American cardiac surgeon from NYC - Performed 1st transplant of an artificial heart (the Jarvik-7 - pic) in 1982 at Univ. of Utah

Question 11

William Harvey

Answer 11

1578-1657 English physician - First to describe blood circulation in detail - Physician to both King James I y Charles I