Week 5

Question 1

Reduced infant mortality by researching the female genital tract and the course of pregnancy

Answer 1

William Hunter

Question 2

One of the greatest surgeons of all time.

William Hunter’s brother.

Answer 2

John Hunter

Question 3

His most famous quote to his most famous student - “Don’t think, try.”

Answer 3

John Hunter

Question 4

The most important drug introduced in the 18th century.

Important in the treatment of dropsy (swelling of limbs)

Answer 4

Digitalis

Question 5

Student of John Hunter.

Established vaccination - most notably by using cowpox to vaccinate for smallpox

Answer 5

Edward Jenner

Question 6

Murdered people in Edinburgh and sold them to Dr. Robert Knox for medical study

Answer 6

Burke and Hare

Question 7

Developed theories on genetics.

Answer 7

Gregor Mendel

Question 8

Coined the term Homeostasis

Answer 8

Claude Bernard

Question 9

Coined the term Anesthesia

Answer 9

Oliver Wendel Holmes

Question 10

Noticed that 13% of women giving birth in his hospital died of puerperal fever. Also, that students moved between the dissection room and delivery room without washing their hands.
Set up policy that Doctors and students must wash hands after leaving the cadavers - Reduced rate to 2%

Answer 10

Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 11

Founder of germ theory

Answer 11

Louis Pasteur

Question 12

Listerine named after _______ _______.

Answer 12

Joseph Lister

Question 13

Father of modern bacteriology

Answer 13

Robert Koch

Question 14

Discovered rats and fleas were responsible for the bubonic plague

Answer 14

Robert Koch

Question 15

Mortality within the first few years of infancy was more than ___%.

Answer 15

50%