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Pioneers in Medicine

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Pioneers in Medicine game quiz
"These are just a few of the pioneers of medicine and surgery. These pioneers developed hormones, anesthetics, antiseptics and antibiotics and more. I hope the biographies are interesting and informative."

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1. Who was the first woman to enroll in a medical school in the United States and receive her M.D. degree?
    Monnica Moore
    Margaret Sanger
    Elizabeth Blackwell
    Clara Barton


2. Which physicians are credited with the discovery and isolation of insulin in the pancreas of animals and then used it to treat patients with diabetes?
    J.R. MacLeod and Cushing
    Baron and White
    Banting and Best
    Osler and Collip


3. Who discovered Penicillin for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945?
    Answer: ((Last name only))


4. Who discovered streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective for the treatment of tuberculosis, for which he was named Nobel Laureate in Medicine in 1952?
    Bert Sakman
    Selman A. Waksman
    Arthur Kornberg
    Roger W. Sperry


5. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the studies and career of Linus Pauling?
    Discovered that sickle cell anemia is a genetic defect
    Won the Nobel Prize in Medicine
    Won the Nobel Peace Prize
    Advocated Vitamin C for the Common Cold


6. Who performed the first succesful human heart transplant in the United States?
    Cary W. Akins
    C. Walton Lilleihei
    Norman E. Shumway
    John Oschsner, Sr.


7. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the studies and life of Albert Schweitzer?
    Ordained as curate at the Church of St. Paul
    Won the Nobel Peace Prize
    Wrote 'The Mysticism of Paul, the Apostle
    Studied medicine at the Univ. of Strasbourg


8. Which physician discovered how to prevent puerperal fever in child birth by introducing antiseptic procedures in the delivery ward?
    Harvey Cushing
    Joseph Lister
    Ignaz P. Semmelweis
    Willian Osler


9. Who was the first to be credited with the discovery of the general anesthetic properties of ether?
    Crawford Long
    William Morton
    Humphrey Davy
    Horace Wells


10. Who introduced antiseptic techniques into the operating room and thereby reduced the mortality from post-operative infections from 50 percent to less than 15 percent in a few years?
    Emil von Behring
    Louis Pasteur
    Joseph Lister
    Jule Rene Dubois


11. Who was the first to strongly advocate the use of chloroform as a general anesthetic during the labor of childbirth?
    Charles Jackson
    James Simpson
    Crawford Long
    Gilbert Abbott


12. For what discovery were James Dewey Watson and Francis Crick awarded the Nobel Laureate in Medicine in 1962?
    Discovery of the XY chromosome
    Discovery of the chemistry of RNA
    Discovery of the structure of DNA
    Discovery of chromosomes


13. Who first discovered the RNA-DNA molecule?
    Johann F. Miescher
    Martha Chase
    Alfred Hershey
    Robert Hayes


14. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the contributions of Louis Pasteur to science and medicine?
    Developed a rabies vaccine
    Discovered an infection in the silk worm
    Proved that yeast was necessary for fermentation
    Name Nobel Laureate in micro-biology


15. Who was 'The father of Medicine'?
    Answer: ((one Name))


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