RAJASTHAN PMT Rajasthan - PMT Solved Paper-2008

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    Who is known as father of Endocrinology?

    A)  RH Whittaker                   

    B)         Pasteur

    C)         Einthoven                         

    D)         Thomas Addison

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    The father of Endocrinology is Thomas Addison. The first endocrine disease reported was Addisons disease (1855), caused by the destruction of adrenal cortex. RH Whittaker (1969), an American Ecologist proposed a five kingdom classification of the living world comprising Monera, Protista, Plantae, Fungi and Animalia. Louis Pasteur (1880) a French scientist, developed the first true vaccine (consisting of weakened micro-organisms) against chicken cholera.


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