People
Charles Darwin
What is the discipline that studies the immune system and its functions?
Immunology
What Drug was derived from the willow tree and is now the cheapest and most purchased medicine in the world?
Aspirin
What device was developed that allowed doctors to monitor fetal progress?
Ultrasound
What drug was the first oral contraceptive for women made available in 1959?
The Pill
Who showed that people who ate oranges and lemons had a higher recovery rate from scurvy?
James Lind
Studies into nutrition and balanced diets lead to the discovery of these essential molecules?
Vitamins
What is the medicine that is used to treat diabetes that was discovered due to research into the endocrine system?
Insulin
What life saving technique was created during war times to help wounded soldiers?
Blood Transfusions/Blood and Plasma banks
What disease caused the government to mandate vaccines, eventually leading to a supreme court case?
Small Pox
Who discovered that DNA was a helical structure and found its density?
Rosalind Franklin
This discipline studied the brain and had important discoveries such as the finding of neurotransmitters and the interactions between neurons.
Neurophysiology
What was the first SSRI developed to help people who suffer from depression?
Prozac
What advancement allows scientists to edit a humans genome down to a single base pair?
CRISPR (gene therapy)
The bubonic plague broke out here causing a forced quarantine and mandated vaccination?
Chinatown, San Fransisco
Who was the first to see phagocytosis and the function of white blood cells?
Elie Metchnikoff
What system includes the secretion of hormones to communicate throughout the body?
Endocrine
What anti-parasitic drug was found on the ice man mummy Ötzi?
Piptoporus Betulinus (Birch Fungus)
What was Emil von Behring and Paul Ehrlich theory about how to create immunity to diseases?
Serum Therapy
What year was the structure of DNA discovered?
1953
Who discovered the use of X-rays?
Wilhelm Röntgen
What discipline had major advancements from Theodor Kocher, Lister and Godfrey Hounsfield?
Surgery
What anti-malarial drug was isolated from the chichona tree when the bark was dried and then ground into a powder?
Quinine
What pioneering work did Alexis Carrel win a nobel prize for in 1911?
His studies of tissue culture and suturing blood vessels
What drug was developed to help treat Parkinson's disease?
L-dopa