Answers to the Medical History Trivia Quiz
Who invented the mercury manometer in 1828?
Answer: Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille
Who is the Hungarian dermatologist who described multiple idiopathic hemorrhagic sarcoma in 1872?
Answer: Moritz Kaposi
In 1896, who described the pyramidal tract disease associated extensor plantar response?
Answer: Joseph Francois Felix Babinski
Who was the first physician to resect the oesophagus?
Answer: Theodor Billroth
Who described capillary circulation in 1661?
Answer: Marcello Malpighi
Who described idiopathic pallor and cyanosis of the fingers and toes in 1862?
Answer: Maurice Raynaud
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