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31 Cards in this Set
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Who was the Greek god of healing?
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Asclepius
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Who was Panacea?
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The daughter of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing (it’s also the name for a drug which cures all illnesses)
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Who was born in Cos around 460BC?
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Hippocrates
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Who was the pioneer of the Theory of the Four Humours?
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Hippocrates
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Which Arab doctor of the Middle Ages wrote a million-word textbook covering all aspects of medicine?
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Avicenna (also known as Ibn Sinna
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Who wrote ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’?
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Vesalius
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Where was Andreas Vesalius born and where did he travel to?
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He was born in Brussels, and travelled to Italy
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What was the name of the famous Paris hospital, run by the Church where Ambroise Paré trained to be a surgeon?
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Hotel Dieu
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Which famous local celebrity was born in 1578 in Folkestone?
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William Harvey
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Which military surgeon treated wounds with turpentine and sealed amputations with silk ligatures?
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Ambroise Paré
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Who first thought that disease attacks the body from the outside rather than within?
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Paracelsus
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What was the name of Charles II’s surgeon?
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Richard Wiseman
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Who first developed a vaccine for smallpox using cowpox?
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Edward Jenner
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What was notable about Elizabeth Garret?
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She was the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain
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Who was the author of ‘Notes on Nursing’?
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Florence Nightingale
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When did Pasteur publish his ‘Germ Theory’?
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1861
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Who developed the carbolic spray for use in surgery?
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Joseph Lister
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Who described doctors that didn’t wash their hands as ‘murderers’?
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Ignaz Semmelweiss
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Which German scientist Identified different bacteria using stains and cultivating them on Petri dishes?
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Robert Koch
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Who made a connection between cholera and a water pump in Broad Street, London seven years before the publication of Germ Theory?
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Dr John Snow
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Whose laboratory can be found at St Mary’s hospital, London?
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Alexander Fleming
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Who wrote a report in 1942 proposing free national health care?
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William Beveridge
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Who pioneered the use of heart transplants in the twentieth century?
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Christian Barnard
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Which British Lady wrote about the use of inoculation as a result of a her travels through Turkey where the practice was used?
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Lady Mary Wortley Montague
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Which Poor Law commissioner wrote a report linking poverty and ill health?
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Edwin Chadwick
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Which Victorian engineer saved London by building a new sewage system after the Great Stink of 1858?
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette
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Which Jamaican nurse set up a ‘British Hotel’ to provide food and shelter for troops during the Crimean War?
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Mary Seacole
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Who was Paul Ehrlich?
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The man who discovered the first magic bullet, Salverson 606
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Why should we remember Florey and Chain?
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They discovered ways of mass producing penicillin
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Who first discovered X-Rays?
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Wilhelm Röntgen
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Who first discovered the element radium, which was later used to treat diseased cells?
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Marie Curie
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