History Of Medical Innovators

Question 1

Hippocrates

Answer 1

Father of Medicine

Question 2

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 2

Anatomy of the Body

Question 3

Laennec

Answer 3

Invented Stethoscope

Question 4

Louis Pasteur

Answer 4

Discovered microorganisms cause diseases (Germ Theory)

Question 5

Semmelweiss

Answer 5

Handwashing

Question 6

Alexander Flemming

Answer 6

Discovered penicillin

Question 7

Florence Nightengale

Answer 7

Founder of Modern Nursing

Question 8

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 8

Invented microscope

Question 9

Joseph Lister

Answer 9

Ist doctor to use antiseptic during surgery

Question 10

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Answer 10

Created 1st mercury thermometer

Question 11

William Harvey

Answer 11

Circulation of blood

Question 12

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 12

Invented bifocals

Question 13

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Answer 13

Discovered/created x-rays

Question 14

Christiaan Barnard

Answer 14

Transplanted first human-to-human heart

Question 15

Jane Cooke Wright

Answer 15

Pioneered cancer research specifically chemotherapy

Question 16

William T.G. Morton

Answer 16

Invented anesthesia

Question 17

Norman Orentreich

Answer 17

First hair transplant surgery

Question 18

Harold Gillies

Answer 18

Father of Plastic surgery

Question 19

Suchruta

Answer 19

Surgery procedures

Question 20

James Pantridge

Answer 20

Cardiac Defibrillator

Question 21

Felix Hoffman

Answer 21

Invented aspirin

Question 22

Rune Elmqvist

Answer 22

Implantable past maker

Question 23

Patricia Bath

Answer 23

Invented a new technique for cataract surgery known as Laserphaco