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People who Made Medical History

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Founder of the American Red Cross

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Dorthea Dix

c)

Clara Barton

d)

Florence Nightengale

2.

Who began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria

a)

Gregory Mendel

b)

Joseph Lister

c)

Robert Koch

d)

Gabriel Farenheit

3.

Established patterns of heredity

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Gregory Mendel

d)

William Roentgen

4.

Reformed understanding of mental illness. Created first mental health hospitals

a)

Dorthea Dix

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Wilhelm Wundt

d)

William James

e)

Ivan Pavlov

5.

What did Gabriel Fahrenheit do?

a)

He invented the unit of meters.

b)

He discovered how to change the weather.

c)

He invented the temperature measurement.

6.

Who discovered radium?

a)

Elias Howe

b)

Jean-Joseph Merlin

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Charles Babbage

7.

The Father of Medicine

a)

Asclepius

b)

Rhazes

c)

Hippocrates

d)

Galen

8.

Greek physician, writer, and philosopher who exercised a dominant influence on medical theory and practice in Europe from the Middle Ages.

a)

Rhazes

b)

Galen

c)

Asclepius

d)

Jon Snow

9.

Founder of modern Nursing

a)

Dorthea Dix

b)

Florence Nightengale

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Joan Salk

10.

The first African American woman in the United States to earn a Medical Doctor degree

a)

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

b)

Florence Nightengale

c)

Clara Barton

d)

Elizabeth Blackwell

11.

The first U.S. woman to win a Nobel Prize in science

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

c)

Gerty Theresa Cori

d)

Elizabeth Blackwell

12.

Developed polio vaccine in 1952

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

Joseph Lister

d)

Jon Snow

13.

Father of epidemiology

a)

John Snow

b)

Cercei Lannister

c)

Joseph Lister

d)

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

14.

Conclusively established that a particular germ could cause a specific disease.

a)

Gregory Mendel

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Gabriel Farenheit

d)

Joseph Lister

15.

Who Invented X-Rays?

a)

Davinci

b)

Lister

c)

Jenner

d)

Roetgen

16.

Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?

a)

Harvey

b)

Sydenham

c)

Vesalius

d)

Pare

17.

Who were the first to use acupuncture therapies?

a)

Greeks

b)

Romans

c)

Chinese

d)

Egyptians

18.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by 
a)
Sir Alexander Fleming
b)
Dr. Philippe Pinel
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
William Roentgen
19.

Who is the father of microbiology?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Da Vinci

c)

Jenner

d)

Pasteur

20.

Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

a)

William Harvey

b)

Charles Drew

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

John Snow