Health Care History Famous People

Who is known as the father of medicine?

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Hippocrates

• John Hunter

Who completed a detailed study of anatomy using corpses?

• Versaluis

• Galen

• Fallopius

• Socrates

What significant invention was discovered by van Leeuwenhoek?

• Stethoscope

• Otoscope

• Microscope

• Ophthalmoscope

Who invented the stethoscope?

• Joseph Lister

• William Harvey

• Rene Laennec

• Gabriella Follopius

Who discovered the vaccine for Smallpox?

• Rhazes

• Jonas Salk

• Walter Reed

• Edward Jenner

Sir Alexander Flemings research lead to Howard Florey's discovery of what?

• Penicillin

• Sulfa

• Cure for the Bubonic Plague

• Treatment for Tuberculosis

Who founded the American Red Cross?

• Florence Nightingale

• Clara Barton

• Sigmund Freud

• Rene Laennec

Who is known as the founder of modern nursing? "The lady with the lamp"

• William Harvey

• Clara Barton

• Florence Nightingale

• Elizabeth Blackwell

Who was the first to describe the circulation of blood and how the heart pumps out blood?

• Joseph Lister

• William Harvey

• Rene Laennec

• Gabriella Fallopius

Who discovered microorganisms are everywhere and developed a process of heating liquids to kill the bacteria found within?

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Hippocrates

• John Hunter