Quizzes about Medecine

-1- Whose pioneering work with Antiseptic procedures made him the "Savior of Mothers"?

A - William Hunter, 18th century "physician extraordinary" to Britain's Queen Charlotte

B - Joseph Lister, surgeon and namesake of Listerine

C - Louis Pasteur, namesake of pasteurized milk

D - Hungerian grocer's son Ignaz Semmelweis

gerardM a écrit:

-1- Whose pioneering work with Antiseptic procedures made him the "Savior of Mothers"?
A - William Hunter, 18th century "physician extraordinary" to Britain's Queen Charlotte
B - Joseph Lister, surgeon and namesake of Listerine
C - Louis Pasteur, namesake of pasteurized milk
D - Hungerian grocer's son Ignaz Semmelweis

So many mothers in his Viennese clinic were dying of childbed fever, a form of sepsis, that obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis wondered if doctors themselves were spreading infection.
In 1847 he instituted a policy of hand washing with an antiseptic, and the death rate plummeted. But this was before Pasteur's germ theory, so other doctors ridiculed Semmelweis, who died in a mental institution at age 47 of sepsis.

-2- What was the first successful chemotherapy drug?

A - Salvarsan, an arsenic compound

B - Mechlorethamine, cousin to mustard gas

C - Vincristine, from the Madagascar (or rosy) periwinkle

D - Tamoxifen, for breast cancer

MurielB a écrit:I give in.

gerardM a écrit:Hi everyone,

Item #2 of the quiz (taken from the March issue of the NG).

-2- What was the first successful chemotherapy drug?
A - Salvarsan, an arsenic compound
B - Mechlorethamine, cousin to mustard gas
C - Vincristine, from the Madagascar (or rosy) periwinkle
D - Tamoxifen, for breast cancer

NB: "Chemotherapy" originally referred to the idea of using a chemical agent to treat disease.

"Chemotherapy" originally referred to the idea of using a chemical agent to treat disease, and Salversan was the magic bullet devised by Paul Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata in 1909 as the first practical remedy for syphillis. Chemotherapy came to apply to cancer therapy only after development of the first effective cancer drug, mechlorethamine, in the 1940s.

-3- What is the earliest known Human surgery in the archaeological record?

A - Cutting out an enemy's heart

B - Prehistoric skull surgery

C - Fixing broken bones

D - Birth by cesarean section

MurielB a écrit:Hi Gerard
i won't ask google because it's not fair so I asked Patrick.
He suggested B=>Prehistoric skull surgery

gerardM a écrit:Hi everyone,

Item #3 of the quiz (taken from the March issue of the NG).

-3- What is the earliest known Human surgery in the archaeological record?
A - Cutting out an enemy's heart
B - Prehistoric skull surgery
C - Fixing broken bones
D - Birth by cesarean section

NB: Note the spelling "Archaeological".
Note the American "cesarean" while the British word is "caesarian" and, the French, "césarienne". We also find "caesarean"... to solve the problem, nurses just say "C-section". This sounds a bit messy isn't it? "A Caesarean section, (also C-section, Caesarian section, Cesarean section, Caesar, etc.) is a surgical procedure..." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_section ), sometimes good to have "Académie Française"

Evidence indicates that opening up the skull to relieve pressure on the brain was widespread surgical practice dating back to at least 8,500 years. Skulls from individuals who underwent the procedure often show healing, meaning the patient lived.

-4- In 1796 Edward Jenner pioneered the use of vaccination to prevent disease, leading to the eradication of smallpox in what year?

A - Britain's Colonial Medical Service completed eradication in 1895

B - U.S. Army M.D. Walter Reed treated the last case in 1900

C - Napoleon made vaccination mandatory, leading to eradication in 1810

D - The last naturally occurring case was in Somalia in 1977.

D - The last naturally occurring case was in Somalia in 1977.

-4- In 1796 Edward Jenner pioneered the use of vaccination to prevent disease, leading to the eradication of smallpox in what year?
A - Britain's Colonial Medical Service completed eradication in 1895
B - U.S. Army M.D. Walter Reed treated the last case in 1900
C - Napoleon made vaccination mandatory, leading to eradication in 1810
D - The last naturally occurring case was in Somalia in 1977.

The World Health Organization began its smallpox eradication campaign in 1967 and achieved victory over the disease in 1977. That October in Merca, Somalia, a 23-year-old cook named Ali Maow Maalin became the last person ever to acquire the disease by natural means. Unlike many before him, he lived.

-5- In 1940, as the battle of Britain raged overhead, Oxford University researchers scrambled to save what medical discovery?
A - A prototype polio vaccine B
B - A new heart medecine that would soon save Churchill's life
C - The antibiotic penicilin
D - A tuberculosis cure.

Item #5 of the quiz (taken from the March issue of the NG).

-5- In 1940, as the battle of Britain raged overhead, Oxford University researchers scrambled to save what medical discovery?
A - A prototype polio vaccine B
B - A new heart medecine that would soon save Churchill's life
C - The antibiotic penicilin
D - A tuberculosis cure.

Pls let Patrick relax and get ready for the coming work week...

Pathologist Howard Florey and his colleagues at Oxford University were so concerned about a German invasion that they rubbed Penicillium notatum spores into the fabric of their clothing. That way, if they were forced to destroy their work and evacuate, they would at least have the raw material to start up again wherever they landed.

-6- Who performed the first breast cancer surgery using general anesthesia?
A - Johns Hopkins surgical pioneer William Stewart Halsted
B - Hanaoka Seishu, in Edo period Japan
C - John H. Gibbon, Jr., inventor of the heart-lung machine
D - Swiss-born 16th century physician and chemist Paracelsus.

-6- Who performed the first breast cancer surgery using general anesthesia?
A - Johns Hopkins surgical pioneer William Stewart Halsted
B - Hanaoka Seishu, in Edo period Japan
C - John H. Gibbon, Jr., inventor of the heart-lung machine
D - Swiss-born 16th century physician and chemist Paracelsus.

NB: It appears "anesthesia" is the Americen spelling of the British "anaesthesia".

Hanaoka Seishu used both Western and traditional Chinese medecine. He devised his anesthesia from a mix of seven herbs, inspired by an early Chinese model. In 1804, he performed a partial mastectomy on an anesthetized patient, and his brand of painless surgery was soon in great demand. Anesthesia wouldn't become common in Western medecine for another half century.

The Edo period (江戸時代 Edo jidai?), or Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa jidai?) is the period between 1603 to 1868 in the history of Japan when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional Daimyo. The period was characterized by economic growth, strict social orders, isolationist foreign policies, an increase in both environmental protection and popular enjoyment of arts and culture. The shogunate was officially established in Edo on March 24, 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration on May 3, 1868 after the fall of Edo.