History of Medicine

What did the primitive humans think caused illness and disease?

• bugs

• plants

• supernatural spirits

• blood

Safer surgery using nitrous oxide and chloroform were discovered in what century

• 16th century

• 18th century

• 19th and 20th

• 21st century

Who is the father of medicine?

• Pare

• Hippocrates

• Nightingale

• Blackwell

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by 

• Sir Alexander Fleming
• Dr. Philippe Pinel
• Sigmund Freud
• William Roentgen

Who is known for developing the smallpox vaccine?

• Joseph Lister

• Robert Koch

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

Acceptance of dissection of the body, invention of the printing press, and a renewed interest in medicine:

• Middle ages

• Dark Ages

• Renaissance

• Egyptians

Edward Jenner recorded the anatomy of the body

• True

• False

Founder of modern nursing.

• Benjamin Franklin
• Sir Alexander Fleming
• Clara Barton
• Florence Nightengale

What oath do doctors have to take?

• Galen's Oath

• The Vesalic Oath

• The Hippocratic Oath

• The patients Oath

Who is the father of microbiology?

• Hippocrates

• Da Vinci

• Jenner

• Pasteur