Name ___________________________ Date __________ Period _________
Healthcare History Test
Write TRUE or FALSE about the following statements.
________1. Ben Franklin invented bifocal glasses.
________2. Digitalis comes from the opium poppy and is used to slow and strengthen the heart.
________3. Lillian Wald was named the first female physician in the United States.
________4. The Bubonic plague (Black Death) killed over 60 million people during the Renaissance
period.
________5. Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis that worked on his 606th experiment.
________6. William Harvey studied the pumping of the heart and the circulation of blood through the
body.
________7. Gabrielle Fallopius discovered the tube leading from the ovary to the uterus.
________8. Robert Koch is considered the “father of microbiology”.
________9. Ignaz Semmelweiss discovered the cause of the Bubonic Plague.
_______10. Morphine has been used for hundreds of years to relieve severe pain.
_______11. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin developed vaccines for polio in the 1950s.
_______12. The Chinese of ancient times studied how blood pressure affects the function of the human
body.
Choose the best answer to the following multiple choice statements and place your answer in the
blank provided:
_______ 1. The _________________ are credited as the first nationality to keep accurate medical
records.
a) Romans
b) Italians
c) Americans
d) Egyptians
_______ 2. The printing press, acceptance of dissection, building of universities, etc. took place during
this period of history:
a. Ancient times
b. Renaissance
c. 1900’s
d) Dark Ages
_______ 3. This Georgian surgeon is believed to be the first person to use ether as anesthetic (but did not
get credit for it). A county was named for him, a statute placed in the state capitol, and a commemorative
stamp was made in his honor as Georgians recognize his contribution to medicine.
a. James Oglethorpe
b. John Forsyth
c. Crawford Long
d. James Pickens
_______ 4. Doctors today still use the oath of ethics that this “father of medicine” started around 400
B.C.
a. Hippocrates
b. Pasteur
c. Priestley
d. Blackwell
_______ 5. Alexander Fleming has been credited with the discovery of:
a. antiseptics
b. radium
c. penicillin
d. ether
_______ 6. Walter Reed’s discovery of a vaccine for ___________________ helped the building of the
Panama Canal be completed.
a. yellow fever
b. mumps
c. polio
d. anthrax
_______ 7. Edward Jenner and Robert Koch both discovered ________________
a. xrays
b. lung diseases
c. vaccines
d. surgeries
_______8. The Greeks are remembered in ancient times for their contribution to study of:
a. anesthetic usage
b. diseases
c. sanitation
d. b and c
_______ 9. Earliest methods of healthcare mainly consisted of: ________________
a. driving out evil spirits
b. anesthesia
c. antiseptics
d. vaccines
________10. This person was the first known person to use antiseptics to prevent spread of disease
during surgical procedures:
a. Joseph Lister
b. Jonas Salk
c. Mr. Clean
d. Joseph Priestley
________11. The American Red Cross was founded by:
a. Elizabeth Blackwell
b. Barbara Dole
c. Clara Barton
d. Emily Cross
________12. The stethoscope was invented by:
a. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
b. Sir William Harvey
c. Galen
d. Rene Laennec
________13. The first person known to use x-rays was:
a. John Hopkins
b. Crawford Long
c. William Roentgen
d. Ben Franklin
_______ 14. The first respectable nursing schools were started by:
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Lillian Wald
d. Rene Laennec
_______ 15. The tube leading from the throat to the ear was founded and named by:
a. Tympany
b. Eustachio
c. Fahrenheit
d. Erhlich
BONUS:
_______ . This Georgian surgeon is believed to be the first person to use ether as anesthetic (but did not
get credit for it). A county was named for him, a statute placed in the state capitol, and a commemorative
stamp was made in his honor as Georgians recognize his contribution to medicine.
a. James Oglethorpe
b. John Forsyth
c. Crawford Long
d. James Pickens