History of Medicine

This person tried to remove magic and superstition from from medicine by observing symptoms and trying to determine the cause.

• Hippocrates
• Herophilus
• Eratosthenes
• Hero

A common belief was that illness and disease were punishments from the Gods.

• Middle ages
• The renaissance
• Ancient times

The Father of Medicine is

• Hippocrates
• Aristotle
• Rhazes
• Galen

A vaccination for smallpox was developed in 1796 by

• James Lind
• Edward Jenner
• Gabriel Fallopius
• Joseph Priestley

Disinfectants and antiseptics were first used to prevent infection during surgery and developed methods of medical asepsis by .....

• Dr. James Simpson
• Joseph Lister
• Louis Pasteur
• Dr. Philippe Pinel

Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by 

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

Invented the stethoscope in 1816

• Robert Koch
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek
• Joseph Lister
• Rene Laennec

Discovered X-rays in 1895

• William Harvey
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek
• Robert Koch
• William Roentgen

Invented the microscope in 1666

• Gabriel Fahrenheit
• William Harvey
• Rene Laennec
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Earliest known people to keep accurate health records

• Chinese
• Romans
• Greeks
• Egyptians