Science Quiz - Health Quiz (Famous Personalities)

Science Quiz - Health Quiz (Famous Personalities)
This a Medicine Quiz on famous physicians, scientists and their discoveries.

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1. Who is known as the "Father of Modern Medicine"?

Diocles
Herophilos
Dioscorides
Hippocrates

2. Name the Greek physician deemed to be the first anatomist

Herophilos
Hippocrates
Erasistratus
Dioscorides

3. He was the first to provide accurate drawings and explanations of the anatomy of the human body. Can you name this world renowned artist?

Pablo Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci
Vincent van Gogh
Michelangelo

4. Who made the breakthrough discovery of circulation of blood?

William Harvey
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Edward Jenner
Antoine Lavoisier

5. Name the American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846

Hermann Helmholtz
William Morton
Henry Jacob Bigelow
John Collins Warren

6. Who performed the world's first adult human heart transplant?

Daniel Hale Williams
John H Gibbon
Christiaan Barnard
Norman Edward Shumway

7. Name the ancient Indian physician known as "Father of Surgery"

Charaka
Vagbhata
Nagarjuna
Sushruta

8. Who identified the specific causative agent of tuberculosis for which he received Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905?

Robert Koch
Richard Morton
Albert Calmette
Camille Guerin

9. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was first awarded in 1901 to Emil von Behring, a German physiologist, for his work on serum therapy and the development of a vaccine. Against which disease he developed the vaccine?

Rabies
Small pox
Diphtheria
Malaria

10. The British bacteriologist Almroth Edward Wright is known for the development of first effective vaccine against

Tuberculosis
Typhoid
Small pox
Rabies

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