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• Who was the Christian noblewoman who founded Rome's first public hospital?

  • Hilaria

  • Marcella

  • Fabiola

  • Gessius

• Who was the first modern female doctor? She was an Anglo-American physician.

  • Clara Barton

  • Harriet Rice

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

  • Margaret Sanger

• Which American student of human sexuality published The Sexual Behavior of the Human Male (1948) and The Sexual Behavior of the Human Female (1953)?

  • Alfred Charles Kinsey

  • Margaret Sanger

  • William H. Masters

  • Virginia E. Johnson

• What was celebrated in 1711 as both food and a cure for tuberculosis?

  • Galway prunes

  • Tuscarora rice

  • Seaboard garlic

  • Southsea tumeric

• Can you name the Spanish conqueror who established the first hospital in the Americas?

  • Francisco Pizarro

  • Diego de Amagro

  • Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada

  • Hernán Cortés

• Which American dental surgeon publicly demonstrated the use of ether anesthesia in surgery for the first time in 1846?

  • Stubbins Ffirth

  • William Thomas Green Morton

  • Alfred Charles Garratt

  • Jonas R. McClintock

• Which English doctor gave a guy a transfusion of lamb's blood in 1667?

  • Edmund King

  • Roger Bosworth

  • Richard Lower

  • William Atkins

• Whose medical text Al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine) was not used in many medical schools until 1650?

  • Asclepiades of Bithynia

  • Galen

  • Avicenna

  • Erasistratus

• Who wrote the work De materia medica (c. 77 AD), the most important classic source for modern botanical terminology?

  • Pedanius Dioscorides

  • Caelius Aurelianus

  • Philonides

  • Sextus Placitus

• Who suggested taking fresh citrus fruit in 1754 and finally cured scurvy?

  • Martin Lister

  • Simon Baskerville

  • James Lind

  • Ralph Bathhurst

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