* Who developed the first blood bank and a system for storing blood plasma?
* Who invented the first stethoscope?
* Which of the following was the co-inventor of the first wearable, external, battery-powered, transistorized cardiac pacemaker?
* Who invented the first non-invasive, indirect method for measuring the blood pressure in humans?
* Who was the first to invent an artificial heart valve and successfully implant it in a human beating heart?
* Who invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine?
* In what year was the stethoscope invented?
* In what year did death certificates come into general use in the United States?
* In what year was the first surgery performed under general anesthesia?
* In what year was the first human heart transplant?
* In what year were the first three blood groups (A, B, and O) discovered?
* Which of these human organs was successfully transplanted first?
* In what year did Jonas Salk develop the first polio vaccine?
* In what year was the first temporary artificial heart implanted?
* In what year did surgeons first perform successful brain surgery on a fetus?
* In what year was the first test tube baby born?
* The world's oldest medical text is about ______ years old.
* In 1844, dentist Horace Wells of Connecticut was the first to successfully use an anaesthetic to extract teeth. What was the anaesthetic?
* When taking the Hippocratic Oath, by which Greek god does the oath taker swear?
* What drug, discovered in 1944, was the first to be effective against tuberculosis?