2. Between June 1 and August 1, 1918, how many British soldiers in France were hit hard enough by the 1918 flu that they could not report to duty?
(a) 109,534.
(b) 674,120.
(c) 200,825.
(d) 342,003.

3. When was William Henry Welch born?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1865.

4. Who was the civilian surgeon general and head of the U.S. Public Health Service when the U.S. entered WWI?
(a) Rupert Blue.
(b) William Jennings Bryan.
(c) Albert Sidney Burleson.
(d) Peyton Rous.

5. Roughly how many nurses were serving in the U.S. military by May of 1918?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in the 1500s declared that he would investigate nature "not by following that which those of old taught, but by our own observation of nature confirmed by ... experiment and by reasoning thereon" (27)?

2. When did Harvard create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university?

3. Where was William Henry Welch born?

4. How many people were killed in the Johnstown flood of 1889?

5. Who was the president of the Johns Hopkins University when it was established?

(see the answer key)

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