Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
History of Surgical Technology
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Pasteur (1850)
✓ Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology
Jenner (1800)
✓ Invented the smallpox vaccine
Vesalius (1514-1564)
✓ Father of modern gross anatomy; preformed dissections on human cadavers
himself; used observation & illustrators to create permanent records; changed
the whole approach to anatomical studies.
Pare (1500)
✓ began to ligate arteries after amputations; stopped cauterizing wound with hot
irons and oil.
Galen (A.D. 500)
✓ First great anatomist; controlled thought, unchallenged for 1500 years; biology
made to serve theology
Celsus (25000 B.C.)
✓ Described the signs of inflamation
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, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Cuneiform Script (4000 B.c.)
✓ First anatomical descriptions of human organs tablets from Nineveh
Imhotep (2500 B.C.)
✓ Revered Egyptian physician (declared divine); wrote an early 'book' on surgery
Code of Hammurabi (2000 B.C.)
✓ medical practices of the day described; some reflect real insight into disease;
most are religious in nature
Vedas (Hindu) (1500 B.C.)
✓ Correlates 'sweet smell' of urine with a specific disease
Homer (1000 B.C.)
✓ early greek history/myth provides a view of military medicine of the day
DeBakey (1950)
✓ Developed the first ventricular assist pump
Cooley (1950)
✓ perfected the heart-lung machine; preformed 1st U.S. heart transplant and 1st
total artificial heart implan
Cushing (1900)
Top Mark !!!
History of Surgical Technology
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Pasteur (1850)
✓ Father of microbiology, virology, and immunology
Jenner (1800)
✓ Invented the smallpox vaccine
Vesalius (1514-1564)
✓ Father of modern gross anatomy; preformed dissections on human cadavers
himself; used observation & illustrators to create permanent records; changed
the whole approach to anatomical studies.
Pare (1500)
✓ began to ligate arteries after amputations; stopped cauterizing wound with hot
irons and oil.
Galen (A.D. 500)
✓ First great anatomist; controlled thought, unchallenged for 1500 years; biology
made to serve theology
Celsus (25000 B.C.)
✓ Described the signs of inflamation
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
Cuneiform Script (4000 B.c.)
✓ First anatomical descriptions of human organs tablets from Nineveh
Imhotep (2500 B.C.)
✓ Revered Egyptian physician (declared divine); wrote an early 'book' on surgery
Code of Hammurabi (2000 B.C.)
✓ medical practices of the day described; some reflect real insight into disease;
most are religious in nature
Vedas (Hindu) (1500 B.C.)
✓ Correlates 'sweet smell' of urine with a specific disease
Homer (1000 B.C.)
✓ early greek history/myth provides a view of military medicine of the day
DeBakey (1950)
✓ Developed the first ventricular assist pump
Cooley (1950)
✓ perfected the heart-lung machine; preformed 1st U.S. heart transplant and 1st
total artificial heart implan
Cushing (1900)
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