Medical History Trivia Questions
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What Chinese medical procedure, first practiced 4,000 years ago, used needles made out of stone?
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acupuncture
Which oath was historically sworn before the goddess Panacea, whose name translates to 'cure all'?
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hippocratic oath
What vitamin deficiency disease did Scottish doctor James Lind cure among sailors by giving them citrus juice?
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scurvy
What substance did Crawford W. Long first use for surgical anesthesia?
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ether
In the U.S. in 1988, how many transplants were performed of the organ first transplanted by Christian Barnard?
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heart
What antibiotic, discovered in 1928 and first used to treat Alexander Fleming's assistant in 1929, revolutionized the field of medicine?
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penicillin
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