Module 1

Question 1

(500-323 BC)

Answer 1

Ancient Greece

Question 2

(23 BC-476 AD)

Answer 2

Roman Empire

Question 3

(476-1450 AD)

Answer 3

Middle Ages

Question 4

(1400-1600 AD)

Answer 4

Renaissance

Question 5

(1650-1800 AD)

Answer 5

Birth of Modern Medicine

Question 6

(1800s-1900s)

Answer 6

Sanitary Awakening

Question 7

(1900 AD-Onwards)

Answer 7

Modern Public Health

Question 8

a founding member of the Royal Society of London, published the Observation
on the “Bills of Mortality” in a
publication entitled “Natural and Political Observations”

Answer 8

JOHN GRAUNT

Question 9

Edward Jenner successfully demonstrated smallpox vaccination

Answer 9

1796

Question 10

− First solid data collection
− Vital statistics

Answer 10

1662

Question 10

Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers blood cells

Answer 10

1670

Question 11

Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria

Answer 11

1683

Question 11

James Lind publishes his Treatise of Scurvy stating that citrus fruits prevent scurvy

Answer 11

1747

Question 12

Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

Answer 12

1853

Question 13

→ had water pump handle removed from the Broad
Street (where cholera started) pump to prevent
the spread of a disease
→ father of modern Epidemiology

Answer 13

John Snow (1854)

Question 14

− established the germ theory of disease

Answer 14

Louis Pasteur 1863

Question 15

− established a relationship between a particular microbe and a particular disease.

Answer 15

Robert Koch 1876

Question 16

First vaccine developed for cholera

Answer 16

1879

Question 17

First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur

Answer 17

1881

Question 18

First vaccine developed for rabies by Louis
Pasteur

Answer 18

1882

Question 19

Koch discovers the TB bacillus

Answer 19

1882

Question 20

− discovers antitoxins and develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines

Answer 20

1890: Emil von Behring

Question 21

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays

Answer 21

1895

Question 22

First vaccine developed for typhoid fever

Answer 22

1896

Question 23

− confirmed the theory that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitos

Answer 23

1900: Walter Reed