People in History

Question 1

Ancient Egyptians

Answer 1

Earliest people to keep health records

Question 2

Ancient Chinese

Answer 2

Believed in curing the spirit and nurturing the body

Question 3

Hippocrates

Answer 3

Held the belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation.
Based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body.

Question 4

Razes and other Arab doctors

Answer 4

Balance in motion and rest
Moderation of eating and drinking
Elimination of superfluities regulation of dwelling places

Question 5

Ancient Romans

Answer 5

connect disease to poor sanitation

Question 6

Michelangelo and da Vinci

Answer 6

Anatomy (anatomical pictures)

Question 7

William Harvey

Answer 7

Discovered blood circulation

Question 8

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Answer 8

Discovered bacteria

Question 9

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Answer 9

Created mercury thermometer

Question 10

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 10

Created bifocals

Question 11

Edward Jenner

Answer 11

Created the first smallpox vaccine

Question 12

Rene Iaennec

Answer 12

Invented mediate auscultation (stethoscope)

Question 13

Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 13

First women doctor

Question 14

Florence Nightengale

Answer 14

Established Nursing

Question 15

Joesph Lister

Answer 15

developed surgery antiseptic

Question 16

Clara Barton

Answer 16

American Red Cross founder

Question 17

Robert Koch

Answer 17

Discovered cure for TB

Question 18

Louis Pasteur

Answer 18

discovered pasteurization (microbiology)

Question 19

Gregory Mendel

Answer 19

founder of genetics

Question 20

Dimitri Ivanofski

Answer 20

discovered the virus

Question 21

Wilhelm Roentgen

Answer 21

discovered the x-ray

Question 22

Marie Currie

Answer 22

discovered radioactivity

Question 23

Sigmund Freud

Answer 23

Psychoanalysis

Question 24

Alexander Flemming

Answer 24

Penicillin

Question 25

Watson and Crick

Answer 25

Double Helix DNA

Question 26

Rosalind Franklin

Answer 26

DNA