Who, What or When Am I?
History Review Game. Fill in answers with a partner
I come from the Opium poppy plant and I relieve severe pain. I can be very addicting if used
too much____________________
I come from the night shade plant and I help relieve muscle spasms, especially smooth
muscles. The medication Donnagel comes from me.__________________
I have been called the “Father of Medicine” because of my studies. I also started an oath of
ethics for doctors over 2000 years ago.____________________
Smallpox has practically disappeared completely because of my discovery._____________
There were great epidemics, such as the Bubonic plague (Black Death), during our days
when convents and monasteries were the only ones practicing medicines and they left
everything in God’s hands.___________________
Computers, artificial kidneys, organ transplants, heart-lung machines, care for unborn fetus,
are all advances during my time period.__________________
Chloroform, ether, alcohol, choking, herbs, and nitrous oxide are all forms of
me.___________
I named the fallopian tubes and vagina and invented the condom._______________
I invented the microscope by looking at scrapings from my teeth in glass that
magnified._______________
I discovered that the heart is a pump and makes blood circulate all through the
body.___________
I discovered that heating food (milk) kills bacteria that cause disease, known as the father of
microbiology________________
I discovered antiseptics would kill germs in surgery._______________________
I discovered that mold could kill bacteria and thus penicillin was used to help fight
infection.___________________
Today’s stethoscopes “lay” around the “neck”, but my first one that I invented was
wooden.________________
I was born and raised in Georgia and used ether to help anesthetize people for
surgery.______________________
I am the Pioneer of Nursing as I made nursing a respectable
profession.__________________
I founded the American Red Cross._________________________
I was the first doctor to perform a heart transplant on humans._______________________
I was the first woman to become a physician in the United States._____________________
I invented the bifocals so I would not have to change glasses so often._________________
I discovered the vaccine for polio which prevented many people from having this
debilitating disease._________________________
I discovered many disease causing microorganisms including the bacteria that causes
tuberculosis”.______________________
I discovered that hand washing prevented childbed fever thus saving many mothers and
babies. Other doctors laughed at me in disbelief. ______________________________
Marie Curie discovered that I could treat cancer.______________________
Chinese medicine using insertion of needles into many different body parts is a description
of me.______________________________
I have been around since early beginnings and come from a foxglove plant. I strengthen and
slow the heart.____________________
I’m the symbol of medical practice as it was once thought that yellow snakes licking a
wound led to healing. The Greek god of healing, Asclepius, held a staff with only one snake
on it.____________________________
I discovered the element oxygen was all around us and vital to our lives.
________________
Names that you might want to connect with these times or persons or things.
Joseph Lister
Gabrielle Fallopius
Rene Laennec
Dark Ages
Anesthesia
Morphine
Elizabeth Blackwell
William Harvey
Belladonna
Ben Franklin
Clara Barton
Robert Koch
Alexander Fleming
Crawford W Long
Florence Nightingale
Christian Barnard
Jonas Salk
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
Hippocrates
Ignaz Semmelweiss
Radium
Joseph Priestley
Digitalis
Acupuncture
Caduceus
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
20th Century