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WorksheetsKey Individuals in Medicine
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 7mins
Who wrote "The Fabric of the Human Body"
William Harvey
Galen
Alexander Flemming
Andreas Vesalius
Who is credited with the Four Humours Theory?
Galen
Hippocrates
Vesalius
Ehrlich
Who's work led to the mass production of penicillin during world war 2?
Watson and Crick
Sydenham and Harvey
Pasteur and Koch
Florey and Chain
Who was known as 'The English Hippocrates'?
Thomas Sydenham
Alexander Flemming
William Harvey
Edwin Chadwick
Who developed the first Magic Bullet?
Pasteur
Flemming
Ehrlich
Koch
In which time Period was Galen alive?
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Medieval
Renaissance
Who wrote a report on the living conditions of the poor?
Thomas Sydenham
Joseph Lister
Edward Chadwick
Edwin Chadwick
What did Lister use as a first effective surgical antiseptic?
Chloroform
Carbolic Acid
Hydrochloric Acid
Salvarson 606
Who developed the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic?
James Simpson
John Snow
Joseph Lister
Florence Nightingale
Who proved that cholera was spread by dirty water?
James Simpson
William Harvey
Thomas Sydenham
John Snow
Which of these individuals were not working during the renaissance period?
Edward Jenner
Thomas Sydenham
William Harvey
Andreas Vesalius
Which of these individuals was not associated with anatomy?
William Harvey
Galen
Andreas Vesalius
James Simpson
Who set up training schools for nurses?
James Simpson
Florence Nightingale
Edward Jenner
Joseph Lister
What did Edward Jenner use to create his smallpox vaccine?
Chicken Pox
Pig Pox
Cow Pox
Small Pox
Who discovered penicillin by chance?
Florey and Chain
Watson and Crick
Alexander Flemming
Andreas Vesalius
If you needed an operation in 1900 who would not be of any use to you?
John Snow
James Simpson
Joseph Lister
Robert Koch
Who believed in miasma rather than the germ theory?
Florence Nightingale
Joseph Lister
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Who discovered that there were different blood groups?
Ehrlich
Landsteiner
Flemming
Harvey
Who set up the NHS?
Alexander Flemming
Edwin Chadwick
James Simpson
Aneurin Bevan
Who's work did not contribute to the 1875 public health act being made compulsory?
John Snow
James Simpson
Edwin Chadwick
Louis Pasteur
Who comes last chronologically?
Hippocrates
Jenner
Galen
Vesalius
Whose work is shown here?
Louis Pasteur
Edward Jenner
James Simpson
Joseph Lister
Who developed an inhaler to regulate the dosage of chloroform during surgery?
John Snow
James Simpson
Edwin Chadwick
Alexander Flemming
Who's work led to the first compulsory vaccination campaign?
Florence Nightingale
Louis Pasteur
Watson and Crick
Edward Jenner
Who is credited with discovering the structure of DNA?
Watson and Crick
Florey and Chain
Simpson and Snow
Sydenham and Harvey
Who made the greatest contribution to our approach to treating disease during the Renaissance?
Vesalius
Harvey
Jenner
Sydenham
What type of animals did Galen dissect?
Pigs and Barbary Apes
Pigs and Monkeys
Barbary Apes and Sheep
Cold Blooded Animals
Who's work was not influenced by war?
Florey and Chain
Pasteur and Koch
Nightingale
Flemming
Who was supported by the Church?
Galen
Vesalius
Simpson
Koch
Pasteur named his process for creating cures vaccination as a tribute to the work of which individual?
Galen
Hippocrates
Koch
Jenner
What substance did Ehrlich use as the first magic bullet?
Salvarson 606
Salvarson 666
Salvarson 506
Salvarson
How many of Galen's mistakes were corrected in The Fabric of the Human Body
100
150
200
200+
Who's work came first?
Koch
Pasteur
Lister
Ehrlich
What did Koch use to stain germs?
Industrial Paints
Industrial Dyes
Industrial Inks
Industrial Chalks
Who's discovery led to the 'Black Period' of Surgery between 1850 and 1870?
Pasteur
Koch
Simpson
Lister
Who added the theory of opposites to the four humours theory?
Hippocrates
Sydenham
Galen
Jenner
Who was known as 'The Father of Modern Medicine'?
Hippocrates
Galen
Pasteur
Snow
Which two individuals work was funded by their governments in order to gain national pride?
Snow and Simpson
Lister and Pasteur
Koch and Pasteur
Koch and Lister
Which individual worked as a battlefield surgeon during the English Civil War?
Thomas Sydenham
William Harvey
Edwin Chadwick
Alexander Flemming
Who's work led to the 1848 public health act?
Edwin Chadwick
Aneurin Bevan
Thomas Sydenham
Louis Pasteur
