Medicine in History

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1. The world's oldest medical text is about ______ years old. 2,000 4,000 3,000 950

2. In 1844, dentist Horace Wells of Connecticut was the first to successfully use an anaesthetic to extract teeth. What was the anaesthetic? nitrous oxide chloroform ether cocaine

3. When taking the Hippocratic Oath, by which Greek god does the oath taker swear? Apollo Hermes Zeus Dionysus

4. What drug, discovered in 1943, was the first to be effective against tuberculosis? penicillin streptomycin quinine erythromycin

5. In 1960, American virologist John Enders developed the vaccine for polio anthrax tuberculosis measles

6. The first effective treatment for malaria was developed by Jonas Salk Louis Pasteur the Moors Peruvian Indians

7. As early as 590, the Chinese began using a process known as variolation to innoculate against what disease? rabies polio diptheria smallpox

8. An Egyptian papyrus dating to about 2000 BC gives the ingredients: honey, soda, and crocodile dung. It is the earliest known acne medicine laxative anaesthetic contraceptive

9. True or false: There have been cases of the bubonic plague in America. Answer: (One Word)

10. When Columbus returned to Europe in 1493, he brought with him a deadly variety of what disease? measles influenza malaria syphilis