Vaccines (and other innovations in health)

One of the first vaccines was used to treat smallpox. A doctor discovered that giving a person _____________ would protect them from smallpox.

• chicken pox

• cow pox

• bacilli

• spirillum

In 1846, a doctor realized if he gave patients a gas called ______________, the patient could sleep peacefully through surgery.

• Nitrous Oxide

• Medical Air

• Anesthesia

• Nitrogen Gas

In the 1800s, an engineer from what country first started using X-rays to help treat patients?

• France

• Japan

• United States

• Germany

If you lived before 1900 and were hard of hearing, you would have likely used--

• an akouphone

• a shell auricle

• an ear trumpet

• a gramophone

Early Asthma inhalers were made of ___________ and were often difficult to use.

• plastic

• silicone

• glass

• wax

Some kids are born with broken hearts. Pacemakers are used to give tiny electric shocks to keep the heart beating. The first pacemaker was tested on-

• a dog

• a two-year-old child

• a rat

• a seventy-year-old man

True or False: antibiotics are the same as vaccines.

• True

• False

The word "vaccine" comes from the Latin word "vacca" which means-

• disease

• cure

• child

• cow

True or False: Outbreaks of smallpox still occasionally occur in certain places of the world.

• True

• False

Each of our bodies contain "tiny disease-fighting blobs" called-

• epithelial cells

• stem cells

• pancreatic cells

• immune cells