TJC Quiz 1 Practice

Two Canadians, Banting and Best are credited with

• Discovering insulin

• Performing the first blood transfusion

• establishing bacteriology as a branch of science

• discovering sulfa drugs

_________________ instituted principles of nursing.

• Koch

• Blundell

• Nightingale

• Fleming

___________________ is known as the "Father" of medicine.

• Malpighi

• Hippocrates

• Morgagni

• Edward Jenner

The leading cause of death in the year 1900 was

• Cancer

• Diseases of the heart

• CVA

• Pneumonia

The eradication of _____________________ disease was certified in 1979 and the World Health Organization passed a resolution on its eradication in 1980.

• malaria

• typhus

• diptheria

• smallpox

The person who developed antiseptics was

• Pasteur

• Lister

• Jenner

• Sydenham

___________________ was caused by bacteria found in rodents, transmitted to humans by fleas, and swept across Europe and Asia in the 1300s. 

• Smallpox

• Nephritis

• The Plague

• Malaria

The leading cause of death in the United States in 2017 was

• Cancer

• Pneumonia

• Diabetes

• Heart Disease

The inoculation for smallpox was discovered by

• Fleming

• Jenner

• Salk

• Koch

X-rays were discovered by

• Roentgen

• Hooke

• Dogomagk

• Boyle