Unit 1: History of Health Care

Question 1

Earliest people to maintain accurate health records

Answer 1

Egyptians

Question 2

First to use acupuncture therapies

Answer 2

Ancient Chinese

Question 3

began modern medical science by observing human body and effects of disease

Answer 3

Ancient Greeks

Question 4

First to organize medical care by providing care for injured soldiers

Answer 4

Ancient Romans

Question 5

considered dissection as a key to understanding the human body, but was restricted by law to dissect animals

Answer 5

Claudius Galen

Question 6

In this time period medicine was only practiced in convents and monasteries

Answer 6

Dark Ages

Question 7

Rebirth of the Science of medicine

Answer 7

Renaissance

Question 8

studied and recorded the anatomy of the body

Answer 8

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 9

first anatomy book was published by

Answer 9

Andreas Vesalius

Question 10

described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

Answer 10

William Harvey

Question 11

invented the microscope in 1666

Answer 11

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 12

identified the Fallopian tubes in the female

Answer 12

Gabriel Fallopius

Question 13

identified the Eustachian tube leading from the ear to the throat

Answer 13

Bartolomeo Eustachio

Question 14

made, prescribed, and sold medications

Answer 14

Apothecaries

Question 15

became the first female physician in the United States

Answer 15

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 16

discovered the element of oxygen in 1774

Answer 16

Joseph Priestley

Question 17

invented the bifocals

Answer 17

Benjamin Franklin

Question 18

developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796

Answer 18

Edward Jenner

Question 19

discovered the importance of hand-washing

Answer 19

Ignaz Semmelweiss

Question 20

invented the stethoscope

Answer 20

Rene Laennec

Question 21

was the founder of modern nursing

Answer 21

Florence Nightingale

Question 22

founded the american redcross

Answer 22

Clara Barton

Question 23

known as the father of Microbiology

Answer 23

Robert Koch

Question 24

developed pasteurization and the germ theory of disease

Answer 24

Louis Pasteur

Question 25

started using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery to prevent infections

Answer 25

Joseph Lister

Question 26

discovered X-rays

Answer 26

Willhelm Roentgen

Question 27

discovered the effect of medicine on disease-causing microorganisms. found a treatment to treat syphilis,

Answer 27

Paul Ehrlich

Question 28

studies formed the basis for psychology and psychiatry

Answer 28

Sigmund Freud

Question 29

classified the ABO blood groups

Answer 29

Carl Landsteiner

Question 30

discovered and used insulin to treat diabetes

Answer 30

Frederick Banting and Charles Best

Question 31

discovered penicillin

Answer 31

Alexander Fleming

Question 32

developed the polio vaccine

Answer 32

Jonas Salk

Question 33

used a live polio virus vaccine

Answer 33

Albert Sabin

Question 34

described the molecular structure of DNA, and were able to explain how DNA replicates and how hereditary information is coded

Answer 34

Francis Crick and James Watson

Question 35

performed the first successful heart transplant in 1958

Answer 35

Christiaan Bernard (yes its spelled right)

Question 36

when was AIDS identified as a disease

Answer 36

1981