VMMC VMMC Medical Solved Paper-2012

  • question_answer
    Who is known as father of endocrinology?

    A)  RH Whittaker   

    B)  Pasteur

    C)  Einthoven       

    D)  Thomas Addison   

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

     The father of enodcrinology is Thomas Addison. The first endocrine disease reported was Addisons disease (1855), caused by the destruction of adrenal cortex. RH Whittaker (1969), an Americal 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 weakend microorganisms) against chicken cholera.


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