history of human contribution to medicine

Question 1

Hippocrates

Answer 1

• Father of Medicine
  -code of conduct for doctors
  stressed good diet, exercise, cleanliness, fresh air

Question 2

Anton Von Leeuwenhoek

Answer 2

-Invented microscope

Question 3

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 3

-invented Bifocals
-found that colds spread

Question 4

Edward Jenner

Answer 4

• Found vaccine for smallpox

Question 5

Rene Laennec

Answer 5

-Invented stethoscope

Question 6

Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 6

First female physician in the USA

Question 7

Florence Nightingale

Answer 7

-Founder of Modern nursing
-established efficient and sanitary nursing practices
-began the professional education of nurses

Question 8

Louis Pasteur

Answer 8

-Father of microbiology
-proved heat could be used to destroy germs(Pasteurization)

Question 9

Joseph Lister

Answer 9

-Used carbolic acid to kill germs
-first surgeon to use antiseptic in surgery

Question 10

Clara Barton

Answer 10

-Volunteer during civil war
-established Bureau of records for missing men
-Formed red cross

Question 11

Robert Koch

Answer 11

• developed the culture plates
• Isolated the bacteria in tuberculosis

Question 12

Wilhelm Roentegen

Answer 12

-Discovered X-Ray

Question 13

Marie Curie

Answer 13

• Discovered Radium
  -First women to win a Nobel prize

Question 14

Sigmund Freud

Answer 14

-discovered the conscious and unconscious mind
-his studies were the basis of psychology

Question 15

Alexander Fleming

Answer 15

-Discovered penicillin

Question 16

Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin

Answer 16

-Discovered Polio vaccine

Question 17

Fredrick G Banting, Charles Best, JJR Macleod

Answer 17

• Created Insulin

Question 18

Christian Barnard

Answer 18

• First successful heart transplant