History of Medicine

Question 1

Rene Laennec

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Invented the stethoscope

Question 2

Clara Barton

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Founder of Red Cross

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Ben Carson

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Lead a team of surgeons in the first known separation of conjoined twins

Question 4

Louis Pastuer

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A pioneer in the devolpment of vaccinations

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Florence Nightingale

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Elevating the profession of nursing to an honorable status

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Gregor Mendel

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Patterns of inheiritence from one generation to another

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Edward Jennar

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invented vaccination with cowpox to replace the fear and danger of inoculation with smallpox

Question 8

Hippocrates

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Separated diseases from its former association with magic by no longer accepting that the gods are responsible for all disease

Question 9

Joseph Murray

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The first surgeon to successfully perform renal transplantation

Question 10

Frederick Hopkins

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Discovery of vitamins as a nutrient in foods had a major impact on the understanding of health and disease

Question 11

William Kouwenhoven

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Development of the closed chest electrical defibrillator and the technique of external cardiac massage

Question 12

William Harvey

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The first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea

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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

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Discovered the rays that he called X-rays

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Watson and Crick

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Discovery of the molecular structure of DNA

Question 15

Frederick Banting

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Co-Discoverer of Insulin

Question 16

Alexander Flemming

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Discovered Penicillin

Question 17

Anton van Loewenhoek

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Father of microbiology

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James Lind

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First physician to have conducted a controlled clinical trial of the modern era

Question 19

Henry Judah Heimlich

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Credited for the discovery of the Heimlich maneuver

Question 20

William Morton

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First to show how ether could be used to allay the pain of operations

Question 21

James Blundell

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First to perform a successful human-to-human blood transfusion

Question 22

Joseph Lister

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First to apply the science of Germ Theory to surgery

Question 23

Karl Landsteiner

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Published a paper about discovery of ABO blood groups. Before this, Landsteiner had claimed that blood groups are inherited. Because of his valuable discovery, he won the Nobel Prize in medicine, in 1930.

Question 24

Robert Jarvik

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Inventor of the first successful permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik 7

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William Hounsfield

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Contributes to the diagnosis of neruological disorders

Question 25

Elizabeth Blackwell

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First woman in America to receive a medical degree

Question 26

Marie Curie

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Discovered that radium destroyed diseased cells faster than healthy cells, and thus that radiation could be used to treat tumours

Question 27

Ignaz Semmelweis

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First physician in medical history who demonstrated that puerperal fever was contagious and that its incidence could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand washing by medical care-givers

Question 28

Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier

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Discovered the cause of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Question 29

Sir Humphry Davy and Horace Wells

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Humphry Davy experimented with the psychotropic properties of N2O, describing his observations in a book, published in 1800. A dentist, Horace Wells discovered anaesthesia with N2O in 1844