Simmers DHO Health Science Chapter 1 – Questions
With Correct Answers
Elizabeth Blackwell Right Ans - First woman to recieve medical degree
Marie Currie Right Ans - Isolated radium
Elizabeth G. Anderson Right Ans - First female physician
Dorthea Dix Right Ans - Appointed Superintendent of Female Nurses of the
Army in 1861
Gregory Mendel Right Ans - established principles of heredity and
dominant/ recessive patterns
Dimitri Ivanofski Right Ans - Discovered Viruses in 1892
Carl Landsteiner Right Ans - Classified ABO blood groups
Frederick Banting and Charles Best Right Ans - Discovered and used
insulin to treat diabetes
Gabriel Fahrenheit Right Ans - First mercury thermometer
William Harvey Right Ans - Described circulation of blood to/from heart
Robert Koch Right Ans - Father of microbiology, culture plates, established
patterns of heredity
Rene Laennec Right Ans - Invented stethoscope
Florence Nightingale Right Ans - Founder of modern nursing, professional
education for nurses
Louis Pasteur Right Ans - Pasteurized milk, rabbies vaccine
William Roentgen Right Ans - Discovered xray
, Anton van Leeuwenhoek Right Ans - Invented the microscope
Hippocrates Right Ans - Father of medicine, organized method to observe
body, stressed more logical treatments instead of only religious
Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci Right Ans - Drew body with help of
dissection
Benjamin Franklin Right Ans - Bifocals
Edward Jenner Right Ans - Smallpox vaccine
Joseph Lister Right Ans - Disinfectants and antiseptics
Clara Barton Right Ans - American Red Cross
Sigmond Freud Right Ans - Conscious and unconscious mind
Alexander Fleming Right Ans - Penicillin
Jonas Salk Right Ans - Polio vaccine
Chinese Right Ans - Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion
Rhazes Right Ans - Arab physician who used animal gut for suture material
Aristotle Right Ans - Dissected animals and is called the founder of
comparative anatomy
Crick and Watson Right Ans - DNA structure
Andreas Vesalius Right Ans - Published first anatomy book
Issac Judaeus Right Ans - Wrote first book on dietetics
Michael Servetus Right Ans - Described circulatory system in the lungs, and
explained how digestion is a source of heat for the body
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