Exploring Medicine Chapters 6-8

Question 1

The two most common gasses in the earth’s atmosphere

Answer 1

oxygen and nitrogen

Question 2

Was the British Royal family vaccinated?

Answer 2

yes

Question 3

said, “It’s a silly superstition.”

Answer 3

Dr. Daniel Ludlow

Question 4

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

Answer 4

The chiefs of the Five Indian Nations in Canada

Question 5

Chloroform does not explode and has a

Answer 5

sweet smell

Question 6

Did David share his discoveries or keep them secret?

Answer 6

shared them

Question 7

Vacca is a word meaning

Answer 7

cow

Question 8

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

Answer 8

The milkmaid

Question 9

What does pneumatic mean?

Answer 9

air

Question 10

Did Humphry Davy use laughing gas during a hospital operation?

Answer 10

no

Question 11

referred to God as the Maker of the Great All

Answer 11

Leeuwenhoek

Question 12

The word micro means

Answer 12

to cook

Question 13

invented the printing press

Answer 13

Gutenberg

Question 14

The Black Death was caused by

Answer 14

a certain type of bacteria

Question 15

Can a person get small pox time and time again?

Answer 15

no

Question 16

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

Answer 16

The head doctor at London Smallpox Hospital

Question 17

wrote a poem about Leeuwenhoek’s discoveries

Answer 17

Jonathan Swift

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Christiaan Huygens

Question 19

James Simpson experimented with ether and had

Answer 19

limited success

Question 20

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

Answer 20

the local people

Question 21

Leeuwenhoek worked as a ___ of the city hall.

Answer 21

janitor

Question 22

said, “Shut your doors against your friends.”

Answer 22

the town leader when the Black Death struck

Question 23

Leeuwenhoek wrote about his discoveries in___

Answer 23

Dutch

Question 24

ordered his soldiers to be vaccinated

Answer 24

Napoleon

Question 25

How did Davy take care of the large family debt?

Answer 25

by paying it back

Question 26

James Simpson became the personal physician to

Answer 26

Queen Victoria

Question 27

invited Jenner along as his ship’s natural scientist

Answer 27

James Cook

Question 28

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

Answer 28

how fast he worked

Question 29

was the first person to be vaccinated against smallpox

Answer 29

Jamie Phipps

Question 30

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

Answer 30

no