He was a physician of some note, Canadian and one of the three founders of the Medical Library Association in 1898. A medical library at McGill University is named after him.
Who is Sir William Osler?
100
This Greek physician is now considered the "Father of Western Medicine".
Who is Hippocrates?
100
This Italian anatomist wrote one of the first human anatomy textbooks called "The Fabric of the Human Body".
Who is Vesalius?
100
This library is the largest biomedical library in the world.
What is the National Library of Medicine?
100
Many diseases during the Middle Ages were thought to sent by this person.
Who is God?
200
This Canadian diabetes researcher won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of insulin.
Who is Frederick Banting?
200
His ideas still dominated the thinking and practice of medicine at the start of the Renaissance.
Who is Galen?
200
This French barber-surgeon discovered the antiseptic properties of turpentine when treating wounds on the battlefield.
Who is Ambroise Paré?
200
At UBC Library, there are three hospital libraries at St. Paul's Hospital, BC Children's Women's Hospitals and ...this midtown location.
What is Vancouver General Hospital?
200
The practice of this type of medicine involves using plants, trees & shrubs. Their parts are prepared as extracts, poultices, herbal teas and in other therapeutic ways.
What is herbal medicine? Or alternative medicine.
300
The first medical school in Canada was opened in 1823 in this city.
What is Montreal (McGill University)?
300
He is known as the Greek God of healing.
Who is Aesclepius?
300
This English physician was the first to recognize the heart was a powerful pump.
Who is William Harvey?
300
This is the name of Canada's national association of health librarians.
What is the Canadian Health Libraries Association?
300
This French researcher discovered a process of killing bacteria in wine and milk that bears his name.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
400
This library is considered Canada's de-facto National Library of Medicine.
What is the Canadian Institute for Science and Technical Information?
400
This Latin maxim "Primum non nocere" means DO NOT do this to your patient.
What is "Do no harm"?
400
He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and known for his work on improving microscopes.
What is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
400
His work in creating the "Index Medicus" in 1879 led to the eventual creation of the MEDLINE database.
Who is John Shaw Billings?
400
This Persian doctor has two name variants, one is Ibn-Sina and the other is this Latin version.
What is Avicenna?
500
The Canada Health Act ensures accessibility -- portability -- public administration -- comprehensiveness and ...this fifth principle.
What is universality?
500
The four humours articulated by Hippocrates are phlegm, black bile, yellow bile and this dominant humour.
What is blood?
500
Sanctuaries of rest, these hostels were run by nuns. Although popular in the renaissance, Paris opened one in 660 AD.
What is a Hôtel-Dieu ("hostel of God")? Also known as a Maison-de-Dieu.
500
This is the approximate number of members in the CHLA/ABSC circa 2012?
What is about 400+ members? (Some say it's closer to 450)
500
This was the most common medical practice performed by doctors from antiquity up to the late 19th century.