Quiz  /  Quiz: Doctor Who?

  • 1. 
    Who introduced the antiseptic principle into surgery?

  • Joseph Lister
  • Alexis Carrel
  • Louis Pasteur
  • William Thomas Green Morton

  • 2. 
    Who played a key role in transforming the organization and curriculum of modern medical education?

  • William James Mayo
  • William Cullen
  • Sir William Osler
  • Hippocrates

  • 3. 
    Who is considered by some medical historians to be the father of modern surgery?

  • Paracelsus
  • Ambroise ParĂ©
  • Mondino dei Liucci
  • Guy de Chauliac

  • 4. 
    Who wrote Al-Qanun fi al-tibb (The Canon of Medicine), one of the most famous works in the history of medicine?

  • al-Razi
  • Sir William Osler
  • Paul of Aegina
  • Avicenna

  • 5. 
    Who was the first to observe structural differences between arteries and veins?

  • Galen of Pergamum
  • Andreas Vesalius
  • William Harvey
  • Aristotle

  • 6. 
    Who founded the science of microscopic anatomy?

  • Giacomo Ruffo Francavilla
  • Giovanni Borelli
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Marcello Malpighi

  • 7. 
    Who wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive textbook of anatomy?

  • Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
  • Guy de Chauliac
  • Andreas Vesalius
  • Gabriel Fallopius

  • 8. 
    Who was the first to recognize the full circulation of blood in the human body?

  • Sir William Osler
  • William Halsted
  • William Harvey
  • Michael DeBakey
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