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This quiz focuses on the progress of medicine through the ages. A bit of healthy fun!
Question 1:
The theory of the Four Humors goes back to the ancient Greeks. Which substance is NOT one of them.
Phlegm
Blood
Yellow Bile
Pus
Question 2:
The age-old art of trepanation is a surgical operation on the skull.
False
True
Question 3:
The first stethoscope was invented in 1816 because of this problem.
A doctor could not hear the heartbeat of a large-chested woman.
A Greek philosopher challenged a man to listen to his heart through a hole in a wall.
A doctor was going deaf and could not hear the heartbeat of his patients.
A knight refused to take off his armor after a battlefield wound.
Question 4:
Which one of these instruments was not used to draw blood from a patient?
Leech
Lancet
Fleam
Hemoflow
Question 5:
Throughout history physicians would taste urine to diagnose this malady.
Urinary tract infection
Alcoholism
Diabetes
Heart defect
Question 6:
Galen is known as the "Father of Medicine".
True
False
Question 7:
Who was the English scientist who discovered how blood circulated in the body?
Porteus
Glasston
Sydenham
Harvey
Question 8:
The "Speckled Monster", "The King of Terror", "The Most Terrible Minister of Death" are all names for this disease.
Measles
Chickenpox
Herpes
Smallpox
Question 9:
Dr. Edward Jenner is the man who championed this procedure.
Heart Transplant
Vaccination
Iron Lung use
Lithotomy
Question 10:
This 18th century Philadelphia doctor was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was a graduate of Princeton and went to school in Scotland as well. His first name was Benjamin. What was his last name?
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