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Medicine through time 1250-Present (Good revision for the EDEXCEL GCSE)
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1
How much did Nightingale manage to get the death rate to fall by at Scutari hospital?
32% to 8%
60% to 10
50% to 5%
40% to 2%
2
Where might a stretcher bearer first take a casualty wounded in No Man’s Land ?
Back to Blighty
Casualty clearing station
Regimental Aid Post
Base Hospital
3
What was the main reason for the fall in death rates due to leg fractures?
Use of X-Rays
Blood Transfusions
The invention of the Thomas Splint
Use of Morphine
4
What was invented in the Renaissance period that helped spread new ideas?
Water pump
Laboratories
The printing press
The microscope
5
Who discovered the three incorrect answers of the last question?
Thomas Sydenham
Claudius Galen
Richard Lower
Andreas Vesalius
6
What gas was first used by the German army in 1915 at the Second Battle of Ypres?
Mustard
Phosgene
Benzyl Bromide
Chlorine
7
Who introduced the liberal reforms in the early 1900s?
Winston Churchill
Seebohm Rowntree
Charles Booth
David Lloyd-George
8
Where might a peasant go for remedies/ointments if they could not afford a trained physician?
Apothecary
Barber Surgeon
Housewife Physician
Pilgrimage
9
How many plastic surgery operations were carried out in WWI?
5,000
9,000
11,000
1,000
10
What disease did 92000 people go to visit King Charles II with hoping he would cure them?
Malaria
Dysentary
Scrofula
Smallpox
11
Over what years was World War One fought?
1930-1934
1922-1926
1914-1918
1939-1940
12
How much funding were Florey and Chain offered to research penicillin?
£30
£25
£50
£95
13
How much more penicillin do you need for a human compared to a mouse?
3 times as much
300, 000 times as much
3000 times as much
300 times as much
14
Who discovered DNA?
Koch and Hata
Crick and Watson
Ehrilch and Domagk
Florey and Chain
15
How many soldiers died of disease in WWI?
10 million
5 million
2 million
12 million
16
What did FANY do during World War One?
Soldiers
Stretcher Bearers
Surgeons
Drivers and Nurses
17
What disease did John Snow save people from in 1854?
Tetanus
Typhoid
Tuberculosis
Cholera
18
What breakthrough did Robert Koch and his team make in 1876?
They identified the bacteria that caused tuberculosis
They used industrial dye to look at microbes
They identified the bacteria that caused cholera
They identified the bacterium that caused anthrax
19
Who came up with first vaccination?
John Snow
Louis Pasteur
Edward Jenner
Joseph Lister
20
How many soldiers were injured on the first day of the Battle of the Somme?
40,000
60,000
50,000
70,000
21
What was the Reformation?
A war
Rebirth of Greek and Roman Ideas
Split of Christianity resulting in decline in Church's power
A new attitude towards knowledge
22
What was the name of the anaesthetic Simpson discovered in 1847?
Ligature
Chloroform
Carbolic acid
Sulfonamide
23
What did William Harvey discover?
The human jaw bone is made from one bone not two
The breastbone had three parts not seven
Blood doesn't flow to the heart through holes in the septum
How blood circulates around the body
24
Who designed the London sewer after the Great Stink of 1858?
Robert Baker
John Snow
Edwin Chadwick
Joseph Bazalgette
25
What caused trench fever?
Lice
Gas
Maggots
Damp conditions
26
How did he do this?
Built a new sewer system
Proved the link between dirt and diseases
Mapped deaths around a water pump proving it was the cause
Cleaned up the streets
27
Name the place where tunneling had created space for an underground hospital that had 700 beds.
Cambrai
Arras
Ypres
Somme
28
When were the two public health acts published in the industrial period?
1848 and 1875
1838 and 1885
1828 and 1865
1842 and 1880
29
Who became known as the 'father of plastic surgery' during WWI?
Harold Gillies
Robert Jones
Ambrose Lockwood
Hugh Owen Thomas
30
What changed in 1867 that led to new laws improving ordinary people's lives?
Public Health Acts
Working class men in towns got the vote
New Primeminister
Clear up after the Great Stink
31
Why was there opposition to the vaccination?
Jenner was not liked
Too many people had died from vaccination
Many did not like the link between treatment and animals
Vaccination was more risky than inoculation
32
What did Louis Pasteur publish is 1861?
Fabric of the Human Body
A History of Medicine
Report on Sanitary conditions of the labouring population
The Germ Theory
33
Why did medieval people follow Galen's ideas?
He was well educated
He was right
He carried out human dissection
His ideas fitted in with Christian beliefs
34
Who funded Florey and Chain?
France
Italy
America
Russia
35
How did the government deal with the 1665 Plague differently to the 1348 Plague?
Isolated the sick
Ordered days of public prayer and fasting
Mayor published orders including killing 200,000 cats
Ordered the killing of rats
36
What approach did the government have towards Public Health during the industrial period?
It was their first priority
Hands on
Carried out large reforms
Laissez-faire
37
Which individual did people from the Middle Ages base their medical education on?
Hippocrates
Galen
Vesalius
Harvey
38
What vaccine did Pasteur develop that saved a young boys life in 1885?
Typhoid
Tuberculosis
Tetanus
Rabies
39
How many medical officers went to serve on the Western Front?
180,000
188,000
118,000
200,000
40
What year did the Black Death reach England?
1250
1452
1665
1348
41
Where was the first place on the evacuation route that you might find nurses?
Casualty Clearing Station
Dressing Station
Regimental aid post
Base Hospital
42
Who discovered the anti-septic carbolic acid?
John Snow
James Simpson
Joseph Lister
Louis Pasteur
43
What did Hippocrates create that is still used today?
A doctor's oath
Urine chart
Theory of opposites
Zodiac Chart
44
Why was Thomas Sydenham known as the 'English Hippocrates'?
Wrote lots of medical books
Rewrote the Hippocratic Oath
Placed importance on careful observation of patients
Carried out first blood transfusion
45
What is the meaning of Renaissance?
Redo
Leave alone
Rebirth
Reconstitute
46
When was the Great Plague
1665
1664
1663
1666
47
When was the NHS founded?
1928
1948
1918
1945
48
When did the vaccination become compulsory?
1888
1871
1901
1891
49
During which war did Florence Nightingale go and work in hospital?
World War II
World War I
Crimean
Boer
50
Who wrote the 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population'
Edwin Chadwick
John Snow
Robert Koch
Florence Nightingale
51
What did people at the time believe caused the Black Death?
Miasma
Movement of the planets
Punishment from God
Rats
52
What was the name of the man-made position of high ground near Ypres in 1915?
Arras
Somme
Cambrai
Hill 60
53
Where was Hippocrates from?
Germany
Greece
Italy
Turkey
54
How did the storage/ use of blood improve during World War One?
Use of sodium citrate to stop blood clotting
Used live donors
Use of carbolic acid to stop blood clotting
Use of refrigeration
55
What was the Royal Society?
A group that met to discuss new scientific ideas
A hospital
The King's court
A religious group
56
When did Fleming discover penicillin?
1930
1928
1923
1938
57
What year was the vaccination discovered?
1780
1798
1802
1789
58
Name the four humours
Blood, pink bile, phlegm and blue bile
Blood, green bile, phlegm and brown bile.
Blood, orange bile, phlegm and black bile.
Blood, yellow bile, phlegm and black bile
59
At what battle were tanks first used on a large scale?
Battle of the Somme
Third Battle of Ypres
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Cambrai
60
In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
1917
1916
1915
1914
