History Of Medicine

Question 1

What is paleomedicine?

Answer 1

Ancient forms of medicine and how ancient people treated diseases & sick people

Question 2

Prehistoric medicine was in what year ?

Answer 2

8000 BC
(rituals, prayers and ceremonies to cure diseases
Trepanning was a common practice)

Question 3

Who were the first pharmacists?

Answer 3

Egyptians (2000BC)

Mummification practiced

Question 4

__ is the father of medicine

Answer 4

Hippocrates

Question 5

What are the four humors ?

Answer 5

Blood
Yellow bile
Black bile
Phlegm

Question 6

Romans and Greeks were involved in devpt of medicine writhing what timeframe

Answer 6

450BC - 300AD

Question 7

__ was a Greek physician who introduced new techniques to surgery

Answer 7

Claudius Galen

Question 8

The first medical book was written by
And in what time frame ?

Answer 8

Ali-al-Hysayn
(700-1500AD Arabian medicine)

Abd Allah Ibn Sina (laws of medicine)

Question 9

Circulations was discovered by _ in what year ?

Answer 9

William Harvey in 1628

Question 10

The first anatomical drawings were made in what era ?

Answer 10

Renaissance era (1400-1700)

Question 11

__ invented the microscope

Answer 11

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 12

__ discovered germs and bacteria

Answer 12

Louis Pasteur

Question 13

__ was the first to use antiseptic for wounds and surgical instruments

Answer 13

Joseph lister (17th - 18th century)

Question 14

Vaccination was discovered in what year

Answer 14

1796

Question 15

__ developed the first vaccination

Answer 15

Edward Jenner (worked with cowpox and small pox)

Question 16

X-rays we’re discovered in what year by __

Answer 16

1895 by William roentgen

Question 17

__ discovered penicillin

Answer 17

Fleming

Question 18

___ discovered insulin can be used to treat diabetes

Answer 18

Banting and best

Question 19

___ performed the first heart transplant in what year ?

Answer 19

De Christian Barnard in 1967

Question 20

The first test tube baby was born when

Answer 20

July 25, 1978
Louis brown

Question 21

Florence nightingale existed in what time period

Answer 21

17th - 18th century