Deck 1: Historical Perspectives

Question 1

Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), presents a classic description of what?

Answer 1

Plague of Athens

Question 2

Between 1347 and 1351, the so-called Black Death killed roughly what proportion of the European population?

Answer 2

Roughly a third

Question 3

Historical accounts and archaeological evidence of smallpox date from roughly when?

A) 1000s BCE
B) 1200s BCE
C) 1300s BCE
D) 1400s BCE
E) 1500s BCE

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In an attempt to subdue hostile American Indian tribes during the Seven Years' War, Lord Amherst used what method(s)?

Question 5

Who wrote Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus (Syphilis as the French Disease)?

A) Galen
B) Antoninus
C) Fracastoro
D) Sydenham
E) Hippocrates

Question 6

Who wrote On Air, Waters, and Places?

A) Galen
B) Antoninus
C) Fracastoro
D) Sydenham
E) Hippocrates

Question 7

Who believed that small, invisible particles, seminaria, were the causes of infectious disease transmission?

A) Galen
B) Antoninus
C) Fracastoro
D) Sydenham
E) Hippocrates

Question 8

Jesuit's Bark was used to treat what disease?

Question 9

Who introduced the practice of vaccination?

Question 10

Who wrote Observationes Medicae?

A) Galen
B) Antoninus
C) Fracastoro
D) Sydenham
E) Hippocrates

Question 11

In Observationes Medicae, the author categorized disease by types, similarities, and differences.

Question 12

What is Peter Panum's claim to fame?

Question 13

Who is known as the father of modern epidemiology?

Question 14

How did Snow gain fame?

Question 15

What did Ignaz Semmelweis hypothesize about transmission of puerperal fever at the Vienna Lying-In Hospital?

Question 16

Who put together Natural and Political Observations-Bills of Mortality?

Question 17

Edwin Chadwick believed that personal hygiene and health had nothing to with morality.

Question 18

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is best known for his discovery of what?

Question 19

List the steps in the Köch-Henle Postulates for infectious disease.

Question 20

Who believed that foul-smelling miasmas and person-to-person contact were responsible for the transmission of yellow fever?

Question 21

Who was one of the first to question person-to-person transmission of yellow fever?

Question 22

Who was the first to suggest that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever?

Question 23

What war provided a testing ground for the mosquito-yellow fever hypothesis?

A) The Crimean War
B) The Franco-Prussian War
C) The American Civil War
D) The Spanish-American War
E) The Great War (WWI)

Question 24

Who was the first to describe the clinical aspects of malaria?

A) Galen
B) Antoninus
C) Fracastoro
D) Sydenham
E) Hippocrates

Question 25

How did Giovanni Maria Lancisi attempt to prevent malaria in Italy?

Question 26

Who was the first to describe Plasmodium falciparum in a patient?

A) Ronald Ross
B) Patrick Manson
C) Alphonse Laveran
D) Walter Reed
E) Robert Köch

Question 27

Who confirmed the role of Anopheles spp. mosquitoes in malaria transmission?

A) Ronald Ross
B) Patrick Manson
C) Alphonse Laveran
D) Walter Reed
E) Robert Köch

Question 28

Who determined that wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni) transmitted Rocky Mountain spotted fever?

Question 29

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were originally established as what and in what year?

Question 30

Place these in order from the earliest to latest establishment:
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM)
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Le Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute)
Das Institut für Schiffs und Tropenkrankheiten (The Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases, now known as Das Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine)

Question 31

In the United States, the Biologics Act of 1902 was in response to what event?

Question 32

In the United States, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 was in response to what event?

Question 33

Paul Ehrlich (German, 1854-1915) developed the first so-called magic bullet drug, Salvarsan, in 1909 to treat what disease?

Question 34

The first synthetic antimalarial was what?

Question 35

Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, and Ernst Chain are notable for their work on:

A) Sulfanilamides
B) Penicillin
C) Chloroquine
D) Primaquine
E) All of these are correct.

Question 36

The CDC began publication of Emerging Infectious Diseases in January of what year?