Top Medical History Trivia Questions

In the 1520s this conquistador founded a hospital in Mexico City, perhaps for the Aztecs he wounded

In 1816 French physician Rene Laennec invented this device used to listen to the heart & lungs

In 1895 this scientist could see right through his wife; he took X-rays of her hand

This symbol of the physician is derived from the wand of Aesculapius, the god of medicine

Don't giggle, this gas, the first chemical anesthetic, began life as a party fad

In 1873 Charles Henry Phillips coined this name for his new liquid laxative

[Hi, I'm Thomas Calabro] The clinic named for these doctors began as part of St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota

J.L. Petit made the first screw type of this device to control bleeding in 1718; in 1997 a woman used dental floss

From the Greek for "to stir up", the first of these to be isolated was epinephrine

The Anti-Vacks were doctors opposed to this Edward Jenner anti-smallpox method