History Fact Finder

Origins

1. How did early humans cure illness and disease? [answer]
2. Who was the first doctor in history? [answer]
3. What is the Hippocratic Oath? [answer]
4. What are the four humors? [answer]
5. When did biological warfare originate? [answer]
6. Were there hospitals before the Middle Ages? [answer]
7. When was the first North American hospital built? [answer]
8. What advances were made in medicine during the Renaissance? [answer]
9. How old is the concept of public health? [answer]
10. What is Gray's Anatomy? [answer]

Modern Medicine

1. When did modern medicine begin? [answer]
2. Who invented vaccination? [answer]
3. When did modern surgery begin? [answer]
4. When was anesthesia first used? [answer]
5. What surgical advances were introduced in the late twentieth century? [answer]
6. Who introduced the use of antiseptics in hospitals? [answer]
7. What are Louis Pasteur's contributions to the study of disease? [answer]
8. When were antibiotics invented? [answer]
9. Why are new antibiotics constantly being developed? [answer]
10. Why is Florence Nightingale famous? [answer]
11. When was the International Red Cross founded? [answer]
12. Who discovered the X ray? [answer]
13. Who was Clara Barton? [answer]
14. What were the Curies' contributions to medicine? [answer]
15. How did Jonas Salk and Albert B. Sabin save lives? [answer]
16. When did the first heart transplant take place? [answer]
17. When was the first test-tube baby born? [answer]
18. When was the first kidney transplant? [answer]
19. What is leprosy? [answer]
20. What is the plague? [answer]
21. Is yellow fever still a deadly disease? [answer]
22. What was the first disease conquered by humans? [answer]
23. Do scientists know when the AIDS virus first appeared? [answer]
24. Who was Typhoid Mary? [answer]
25. Has the flu ever reached epidemic proportions? [answer]
26. What are CT and MRI scans? [answer]

Psychology

1. Why are Pavlov's dogs famous? [answer]
2. What is behaviorism? [answer]
3. What were Sigmund Freud's contributions to the study of human psychology? [answer]
4. What does the term "Jungian" mean? [answer]
5. Who was Dorothea Dix [answer]
6. What is depression? [answer]