COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS [CERTIFIED STUDY
GUIDE] GRADE A+ GET IT RIGHT
Who founded the American Red Cross in 1881? - (correct
answer) Clara Barton
The name of the person who invented Pencillin (1928)? -
(correct answer) Alexander Flemining
Discovery of cold transmission - (correct answer) Ben
Franklin
19th Century physician responsible for decreasing puperal fever
in women and in the process making handwashing more of an
acceptable practice - (correct answer) Ignaz Semmelweis
Who made pasteurization of milk and the fist vaccine for
Rabies? - (correct answer) Louis Pasteur
,Who were the fist to organize medical care? - (correct
answer) Romans
Who where the first to use acupuncture therapy? - (correct
answer) Chinese
Who invented a wood stethoscope (1819)? - (correct answer)
Rene Lannec
Who was the first to use general anesthesia? - (correct
answer) Crawford Long
Jamaican born nurse who was an expert on Cholera and worked
alongside Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. "The
other lady with the lamp" - (correct answer) Mary Jane
Seacole
Who where the first to keep accurate records? - (correct
answer) Egyptians
Who were the first to study cause of disease? - (correct
answer) Greeks
, Name for 282 Ancient laws - (correct answer) Code of
Hammurabi
First to discover blood in veins and not air - (correct answer)
Greeks
Western symbol for medicine - (correct answer) Caduceus
International symbol for medicine - (correct answer) Staff of
Asclepius
First to have hospitals? - (correct answer) Romans
Name at least 3 epidemics & uncontrolled diseases from the
Dark & Middle Ages - (correct answer) Bubonic
Plague,Tuberculosis, Smallpox
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