QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Who invented a wood stethoscope (1819)? - CORRECT ANSWER Rene Lannec
Who was the first to use general anesthesia? - CORRECT ANSWER Crawford Long
Jamaican born nurse who was an expert on Cholera and worked alongside Florence
Nightingale during the Crimean War. "The other lady with the lamp" - CORRECT
ANSWER Mary Jane Seacole
Who founded the American Red Cross in 1881? - CORRECT ANSWER Clara Barton
The name of the person who invented Pencillin (1928)? - CORRECT
ANSWER Alexander Flemining
Discovery of cold transmission - CORRECT ANSWER Ben Franklin
19th Century physician responsible for decreasing puperal fever in women and in the process
making handwashing more of an acceptable practice - CORRECT ANSWER Ignaz
Semmelweis
Who made pasteurization of milk and the fist vaccine for Rabies? - CORRECT
ANSWER Louis Pasteur
Who were the fist to organize medical care? - CORRECT ANSWER Romans
Who where the first to use acupuncture therapy? - CORRECT ANSWER Chinese
Who where the first to keep accurate records? - CORRECT ANSWER Egyptians
, Who were the first to study cause of disease? - CORRECT ANSWER Greeks
Name for 282 Ancient laws - CORRECT ANSWER Code of Hammurabi
First to discover blood in veins and not air - CORRECT ANSWER Greeks
Western symbol for medicine - CORRECT ANSWER Caduceus
International symbol for medicine - CORRECT ANSWER Staff of Asclepius
First to have hospitals? - CORRECT ANSWER Romans
Name at least 3 epidemics & uncontrolled diseases from the Dark & Middle Ages -
CORRECT ANSWER Bubonic Plague,Tuberculosis, Smallpox
Types of transmission routes - CORRECT ANSWER direct, indirect, airborne, vector
borne
Transmission from person to person - CORRECT ANSWER direct transmission
Transmission from surface to person - CORRECT ANSWER indirect transmission
transmission from air, dust, droplets (sneezing, coughing) - CORRECT
ANSWER airborne transmission
transmission through carriers - CORRECT ANSWER vector-borne transmisson
hand-washing is a part of - CORRECT ANSWER medical aspesis