The 18th Century

Question 1

Who started making systematic use of the thermometer to monitor body temperature?

Answer 1

Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738)

Question 2

What was the 18th century great for?

Answer 2

~ Advances in diagnostics

~ Advances in therapeutics

Question 3

What did Leopoid Auenbrugger (1722-1809) discover?

Answer 3

The need to tap on the chest to look for fluid in the lungs

Question 4

Who proved that scurvy (a vitamin C deficiency disease) could be cure by eating citrus fruit?

Answer 4

James Lind (1716-1794)

Question 5

What did Edward Jenner (1749-1923)?

Answer 5

He developed the smallpox vaccine, which was so successful that it has now been eradicated

Question 6

What did the botanist William Withering (1741-1799) show?

Answer 6

The effectiveness of digitalis (chemicals from foxglove) in treating heart diseases

Question 7

Despite the wealth of discoveries in the 18th century, what main treatments still remained?

Answer 7

~ Cupping
~ Bleeding
~ Purging

Question 8

Who started dentistry science and veterinary medicine?

Answer 8

~ Dentistry - Pierre Fauchard (early 1700’s)

~ Veterinary - Claude Bourgelat (1761)