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Key Individuals in Medicine

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote "The Fabric of the Human Body"

a)

William Harvey

b)

Galen

c)

Alexander Flemming

d)

Andreas Vesalius

2.

Who is credited with the Four Humours Theory?

a)

Galen

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Vesalius

d)

Ehrlich

3.

Who's work led to the mass production of penicillin during world war 2?

a)

Watson and Crick

b)

Sydenham and Harvey

c)

Pasteur and Koch

d)

Florey and Chain

4.

Who was known as 'The English Hippocrates'?

a)

Thomas Sydenham

b)

Alexander Flemming

c)

William Harvey

d)

Edwin Chadwick

5.

Who developed the first Magic Bullet?

a)

Pasteur

b)

Flemming

c)

Ehrlich

d)

Koch

6.

In which time Period was Galen alive?

a)

Ancient Greece

b)

Ancient Rome

c)

Medieval

d)

Renaissance

7.

Who wrote a report on the living conditions of the poor?

a)

Thomas Sydenham

b)

Joseph Lister

c)

Edward Chadwick

d)

Edwin Chadwick

8.

What did Lister use as a first effective surgical antiseptic?

a)

Chloroform

b)

Carbolic Acid

c)

Hydrochloric Acid

d)

Salvarson 606

9.

Who developed the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic?

a)

James Simpson

b)

John Snow

c)

Joseph Lister

d)

Florence Nightingale

10.

Who proved that cholera was spread by dirty water?

a)

James Simpson

b)

William Harvey

c)

Thomas Sydenham

d)

John Snow

11.

Which of these individuals were not working during the renaissance period?

a)

Edward Jenner

b)

Thomas Sydenham

c)

William Harvey

d)

Andreas Vesalius

12.

Which of these individuals was not associated with anatomy?

a)

William Harvey

b)

Galen

c)

Andreas Vesalius

d)

James Simpson

13.

Who set up training schools for nurses?

a)

James Simpson

b)

Florence Nightingale

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

Joseph Lister

14.

What did Edward Jenner use to create his smallpox vaccine?

a)

Chicken Pox

b)

Pig Pox

c)

Cow Pox

d)

Small Pox

15.

Who discovered penicillin by chance?

a)

Florey and Chain

b)

Watson and Crick

c)

Alexander Flemming

d)

Andreas Vesalius

16.

If you needed an operation in 1900 who would not be of any use to you?

a)

John Snow

b)

James Simpson

c)

Joseph Lister

d)

Robert Koch

17.

Who believed in miasma rather than the germ theory?

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Joseph Lister

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

Robert Koch

18.

Who discovered that there were different blood groups?

a)

Ehrlich

b)

Landsteiner

c)

Flemming

d)

Harvey

19.

Who set up the NHS?

a)

Alexander Flemming

b)

Edwin Chadwick

c)

James Simpson

d)

Aneurin Bevan

20.

Who's work did not contribute to the 1875 public health act being made compulsory?

a)

John Snow

b)

James Simpson

c)

Edwin Chadwick

d)

Louis Pasteur

21.

Who comes last chronologically?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Jenner

c)

Galen

d)

Vesalius

22.

Whose work is shown here?

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

James Simpson

d)

Joseph Lister

23.

Who developed an inhaler to regulate the dosage of chloroform during surgery?

a)

John Snow

b)

James Simpson

c)

Edwin Chadwick

d)

Alexander Flemming

24.

Who's work led to the first compulsory vaccination campaign?

a)

Florence Nightingale

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Watson and Crick

d)

Edward Jenner

25.

Who is credited with discovering the structure of DNA?

a)

Watson and Crick

b)

Florey and Chain

c)

Simpson and Snow

d)

Sydenham and Harvey

26.

Who made the greatest contribution to our approach to treating disease during the Renaissance?

a)

Vesalius

b)

Harvey

c)

Jenner

d)

Sydenham

27.

What type of animals did Galen dissect?

a)

Pigs and Barbary Apes

b)

Pigs and Monkeys

c)

Barbary Apes and Sheep

d)

Cold Blooded Animals

28.

Who's work was not influenced by war?

a)

Florey and Chain

b)

Pasteur and Koch

c)

Nightingale

d)

Flemming

29.

Who was supported by the Church?

a)

Galen

b)

Vesalius

c)

Simpson

d)

Koch

30.

Pasteur named his process for creating cures vaccination as a tribute to the work of which individual?

a)

Galen

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Koch

d)

Jenner

31.

What substance did Ehrlich use as the first magic bullet?

a)

Salvarson 606

b)

Salvarson 666

c)

Salvarson 506

d)

Salvarson

32.

How many of Galen's mistakes were corrected in The Fabric of the Human Body

a)

100

b)

150

c)

200

d)

200+

33.

Who's work came first?

a)

Koch

b)

Pasteur

c)

Lister

d)

Ehrlich

34.

What did Koch use to stain germs?

a)

Industrial Paints

b)

Industrial Dyes

c)

Industrial Inks

d)

Industrial Chalks

35.

Who's discovery led to the 'Black Period' of Surgery between 1850 and 1870?

a)

Pasteur

b)

Koch

c)

Simpson

d)

Lister

36.

Who added the theory of opposites to the four humours theory?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Sydenham

c)

Galen

d)

Jenner

37.

Who was known as 'The Father of Modern Medicine'?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Galen

c)

Pasteur

d)

Snow

38.

Which two individuals work was funded by their governments in order to gain national pride?

a)

Snow and Simpson

b)

Lister and Pasteur

c)

Koch and Pasteur

d)

Koch and Lister

39.

Which individual worked as a battlefield surgeon during the English Civil War?

a)

Thomas Sydenham

b)

William Harvey

c)

Edwin Chadwick

d)

Alexander Flemming

40.

Who's work led to the 1848 public health act?

a)

Edwin Chadwick

b)

Aneurin Bevan

c)

Thomas Sydenham

d)

Louis Pasteur