Exploring Medicine Chapters 6-7

Question 1

Vacca is a word meaning

Answer 1

cow

Question 2

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

Answer 2

no

Question 3

The word micro means

Answer 3

to cook

Question 4

said, “Shut your doors against your friends.”

Answer 4

the town leader when the Black Death struck

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Christiaan Huygens

Question 6

wrote a poem about Leeuwenhoek’s discoveries

Answer 6

Jonathan Swift

Question 7

ordered his soldiers to be vaccinated

Answer 7

Napoleon

Question 8

Can a person get small pox time and time again?

Answer 8

no

Question 9

was the first person to be vaccinated against smallpox

Answer 9

Jamie Phipps

Question 10

invented the printing press

Answer 10

Gutenberg

Question 11

Was the British Royal family vaccinated?

Answer 11

yes

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The head doctor at London Smallpox Hospital

Question 13

invited Jenner along as his ship’s natural scientist

Answer 13

James Cook

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The milkmaid

Question 15

referred to God as the Maker of the Great All

Answer 15

Leeuwenhoek

Question 16

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

Answer 16

The chiefs of the Five Indian Nations in Canada

Question 17

The Black Death was caused by

Answer 17

a certain type of bacteria

Question 18

said, “It’s a silly superstition.”

Answer 18

Dr. Daniel Ludlow

Question 19

Leeuwenhoek worked as a ___ of the city hall.

Answer 19

janitor

Question 20

Leeuwenhoek wrote about his discoveries in___

Answer 20

Dutch

Question 21

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

Answer 21

the local people