History of Healthcare Quiz

What is holistic health care?

• Care that only uses herbal medicine

• Care that promotes physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual wellbeing

• Care that is provided only in hospitals

• Care that focuses only on physical health

What does telemedicine involve?

• Using only traditional methods of healing

• Using only face-to-face consultations

• Using video, audio, and computer systems to provide medical services

• Using herbs and plants for treatment

Which plant is Digitalis derived from?

• Opium poppy

• Nightshade plant

• Foxglove plant

• Cinchona tree

Who is known as the 'Father of Medicine'?

• Hippocrates

• Galen

• Ambroise Pare

• William Harvey

What did the Romans contribute to medicine?

• Developed the art of splinting fractures

• Started the first hospitals and created sanitation strategies

• Invented the microscope

• Discovered the smallpox vaccine

What major event occurred during the Middle Ages?

• The invention of the printing press

• The first successful heart transplant

• The epidemic of the bubonic plague

• The discovery of penicillin

What was a significant advancement during the Renaissance?

• The invention of the stethoscope

• The acceptance of dissection of the human body

• The discovery of the structure of DNA

• The development of the first vaccines

Who invented the microscope?

• Louis Pasteur

• Rene Laennec

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Joseph Priestly

What did Joseph Priestly discover?

• The element oxygen

• The smallpox vaccine

• The structure of DNA

• The first antibiotic

Who is known as the founder of modern nursing?

• Clara Barton

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Florence Nightingale

• Lillian Wald