Pharmacy & Dentistry
Early pharmacists were also members of what profession?
Priests
Who is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
Hippocrates
Who developed the first vaccine ?
Edward Jenner
Who is considered the founder of modern nursing?
Florence Nightingale
Who pioneered the study of radioactivity?
Marie Curie
What writing style on clay tablets preserved prescriptions as early as 2000 BC?
Cuneiform tablets
What oath did Hippocrates create that doctors still use today?
Hippocratic Oath
Jenner discovered that cowpox protected against which deadly disease?
Smallpox
Nightingale improved hospitals by focusing on what ?
Hygiene and sanitation
What two elements did Marie Curie discover?
Radium and polonium
Tooth decay was once believed to be caused by what?
Tooth worms
Which physician's medical texts influenced Europe for over 1,000 years?
Galen
Louis Pasteur proved what scientific theory?
Germ theory of disease
Who is called the "Father of Antiseptic Surgery"?
Joseph Lister
Curie's work led to what form of cancer treatment?
Radiation therapy
In what year was the first dental X-ray used?
1896
Who created detailed anatomical drawings from dissecting over 30 corpses?
Leonardo da Vinci
Pasteur created vaccines for which two diseases?
Rabies and anthrax
What did Lister use during surgery to drastically reduce infections?
Who discovered the first antibiotic, PENICILLIN, in 1928?
Alexander Fleming
By 1902, how many Americans were addicted to cocaine?
200,000
What subject did Galen focus on through animal dissections?
Anatomy and blood circulation theories
What process invented by Pasteur kills bacteria in milk and food?
Pasteurization
Nightingale established the first professional what in 1860?
Nursing school
Fleming's discovery saved millions of lives during what war?
World War II