Exploring Medicine Chapters 6-10

Question 1

How did Semmelweiss’ friend Jacob Kolletschka die?

Answer 1

a disease he got from a corpse

Question 2

What does the word anesthetic mean?

Answer 2

no feeling

Question 3

Can a person get small pox time and time again?

Answer 3

no

Question 4

William Morton tried ether first on

Answer 4

his pet dog

Question 5

said, “We suffer from disease while he plays with a useless hobby!

Answer 5

the local people

Question 6

Did the Royal Society refuse to read Leeuwenhoek’s letters?

Answer 6

no

Question 7

By the start of the 1800s, the skill of a surgeon was judged by

Answer 7

how fast he worked

Question 8

said, “Gentlemen, this is no humbug!”

Answer 8

Dr. Warren, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital

Question 9

James Simpson became the personal physician to

Answer 9

Queen Victoria

Question 10

Did William Morton earn a good income as a dentist?

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

Vacca is a word meaning

Answer 11

cow

Question 12

referred to God as the Maker of the Great All

Answer 12

Leeuwenhoek

Question 13

The Black Death was caused by

Answer 13

a certain type of bacteria

Question 14

Leeuwenhoek wrote about his discoveries in___

Answer 14

Dutch

Question 15

said, “Shut your doors against your friends.”

Answer 15

the town leader when the Black Death struck

Question 16

wrote a poem about Leeuwenhoek’s discoveries

Answer 16

Jonathan Swift

Question 17

Why did William Morton attend medical school?

Answer 17

to learn how relieve pain

Question 18

said, “I know there is not way to prevent the disease [smallpox].”

Answer 18

The head doctor at London Smallpox Hospital

Question 19

coined the word anesthetic

Answer 19

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 20

Philipp Semmelweiss died before learning about what?

Answer 20

the germ theory of disease

Question 21

said, “No, it didn’t hurt at all.”

Answer 21

Gilbert Abbott, a patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Question 22

Were the midwives proud of their bloodstained coats?

Answer 22

no

Question 23

What did Charles Jackson claim to invent?

Answer 23

telegraph

Question 24

Was the British Royal family vaccinated?

Answer 24

yes

Question 25

said, “Your patient is ready, doctor.”

Answer 25

William Morton

Question 26

said, “It’s a silly superstition.”

Answer 26

Dr. Daniel Ludlow

Question 27

Before his medical studies began, who did William Morton receive private instruction from?

Answer 27

Charles Jackson

Question 28

was the first person to be vaccinated against smallpox

Answer 28

Jamie Phipps

Question 29

The two most common gasses in the earth’s atmosphere

Answer 29

oxygen and nitrogen

Question 30

James Simpson experimented with ether and had

Answer 30

limited success

Question 31

The word micro means

Answer 31

to cook

Question 32

What did the head midwife insist the midwives had?

Answer 32

clean hands

Question 33

Leeuwenhoek worked as a ___ of the city hall.

Answer 33

janitor

Question 34

invented the printing press

Answer 34

Gutenberg

Question 35

Chloroform does not explode and has a

Answer 35

sweet smell

Question 36

invited Jenner along as his ship’s natural scientist

Answer 36

James Cook

Question 37

What does pneumatic mean?

Answer 37

air

Question 38

ordered his soldiers to be vaccinated

Answer 38

Napoleon

Question 39

said, “We beseech the Great Spirit to take care of you.”

Answer 39

The chiefs of the Five Indian Nations in Canada

Question 40

Did Humphry Davy use laughing gas during a hospital operation?

Answer 40

no

Question 41

said, “I was wrong. The little animals do exist.”

Answer 41

Christiaan Huygens

Question 42

Did David share his discoveries or keep them secret?

Answer 42

shared them

Question 43

said, “It [cowpox] is a harmless disease and protects me from smallpox.”

Answer 43

The milkmaid

Question 44

How did Davy take care of the large family debt?

Answer 44

by paying it back