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Health Care History Famous People

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is known as the father of medicine?

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Hippocrates

d)

John Hunter

2.

Who completed a detailed study of anatomy using corpses?

a)

Versaluis

b)

Galen

c)

Fallopius

d)

Socrates

3.

What significant invention was discovered by van Leeuwenhoek?

a)

Stethoscope

b)

Otoscope

c)

Microscope

d)

Ophthalmoscope

4.

Who invented the stethoscope?

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

William Harvey

c)

Rene Laennec

d)

Gabriella Follopius

5.

Who discovered the vaccine for Smallpox?

a)

Rhazes

b)

Jonas Salk

c)

Walter Reed

d)

Edward Jenner

6.

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

a)

Penicillin

b)

Sulfa

c)

Cure for the Bubonic Plague

d)

Treatment for Tuberculosis

7.

Who founded the American Red Cross?

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Rene Laennec

8.

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

a)

William Harvey

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Elizabeth Blackwell

9.

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

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

William Harvey

c)

Rene Laennec

d)

Gabriella Fallopius

10.

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

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Hippocrates

d)

John Hunter

11.

Who was the first person to use medical asepsis techniques?

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Hippocrates

d)

William Harvey

12.

Who studied the conscious and unconscious mind, creating the basics for today's phycology and psychiatry?

a)

Alexander Fleming

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Jonas Salk

d)

Clara Barton

13.

Who discovered the polio vaccine?

a)

Alexander Fleming

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Jonas Salk

d)

Clara Barton

14.

Who was the first person to insert a feeding tube into a patient?

a)

William Beaumont

b)

John Hunter

c)

Elie Metchnikoff

d)

William Harvey

15.

Who developed the first form of stitches using animal guts?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Aristotle

c)

Da Vinci

d)

Rhazes