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Medicine Through Time quiz for the edexcel unit
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1
What plant was used as a deterrent during the Great Plague?
Ipecacuanha
Ivy
Marijuana
Tobacco
2
What disease caused a problem during the Middle Ages?
Cholera
Tuberculosis
Bubunic Plague
Bubonic Plague
3
What would physicians use in the Middle Ages to diagnose and treat illness?
Urine chart and psychology
Saliva chart and astrology
faeces plate and philosophy
urine charts and astrology
4
Which animals did Galen dissect?
Pigs and Apes
Rabbits and chicken
Guinea pigs and hamsters
Pigs and chickens
5
Which part of the body should not be treated when the moon is in Pisces?
The hands
The feet
The torso
The head
6
How much money did Parliament give Jenner to develop his vaccine?
£400,000
£30,000
£5,000
£120,000
7
In which year was the second Public Health Act passed?
1875
1857
1876
1865
8
What did Hippocrates recommend you do in order to stay healthy?
Eat right, rest and exercise
Eat an apple a day
Eat, sleep, rave, repeat
Overdose on Vitamin C
9
What are Crick and Watson famous for?
Discovering vaccinations
Solving murders
Discovering the structure of DNA
Discovering DNA means did not 'appen
10
Who designed the underground sewerage system for London?
Basilget
Bazalgette
Baguette
Balguette
11
Why did the Flagellants whip their bodies?
To prevent themselves getting the Black Death
To kill mosquitos
The inflict unnecessary pain
To prevent them catching cholera
12
What did Paul Ehrlich discover?
Paracetemol
Ibuprofen
Prontosil
Salvarsan 606
13
What is DUMP?
Desire, understanding, money, power
Desire, understanding, monkey, panda
Design, underestimate, measure, pow
Desire, unbelievable, money, penguin
14
In which year were vaccines made compulsory (not enforced)?
1842
1852
1862
1872
15
What disease was the first vaccine designed to prevent?
Smallpox
Cholera
Typhoid
Cowpox
16
What is an example of regression in public health from the Roman period to the Middle Ages?
Cesspits often leaked into water supplies
Reservoirs could flood
Public Baths were only cleaned once a week
Sewers needed rain water
17
47% of hospitals in the Middle Ages provided what?
Shelter to the poor travellers and pilgrims
Care for the sick
Care for lepers
Housed the poor and elderly
18
In which war did Florence Nightingale serve as a nurse?
Crimean War
First World War
Boer War
Second World War
19
Why was public health so poor after the Romans left?
The Romans took all of their engineers with them
God sent dirt to the streets
Everybody swam in the sewers
Too many rulers at war
20
What was John Snow famous for?
For discovering there is life after death
Discovering that white walkers are extremely dangerous
Discovering that tuberculosis was a water-borne disease
Discovering that cholera was a water-borne disease
21
What grade are you going to get in your Medicine Through Time exam?
C
B
A*
A
22
Who discovered penicillin?
Harvey
Vesalius
Fleming
Galen
23
Who published the book 'The Fabric of the Human Body'?
Vesalius
Galen
Chadwick
Harvey
24
Used in herbal remedies, honey has the ability to do what?
Reduce pain
Kill infections
Attract bees
Mend a broken arm
25
In what year was Pasteur's Germ Theory published?
1761
1861
1965
1865
26
What disease did Marie Curie die of?
Leukaemia
Tuberculosis
Typhoid
Cholera
27
What was the name given to an untrained healer in the Renaissance?
A quack
A woof
A moo
A tweet
28
Which God did people pray to in order to be healed?
Apollo
Asclepius
Anubis
Athena
29
What is 'miasma'?
Air from Hell
Bad air
Bad water
Heavenly air
30
What was invented in 1816 that doctors still use today?
Stethoscope
Antibiotics
Sick bowl
Ether
31
What was the name of the first hospital to be founded in London in 1123?
St Matthew's
St George's
St Peter's
St Bartholemew's
32
What was the name of Chadwick's report?
Life and Labour of the People in London
The Sanitary report on the working conditions in London
The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population
The unnecessarily long titled report on public health
33
What were the Liberal Reforms?
Policies to encourage freedom of speech
Policies to help keep politicians well fed
Policies to improve health and welfare
Policies to increase the population
34
Why was William Harvey important to medicine?
He discovered that blood came in different groups
He discovered that the heart pumps blood around the body
He proved Galen wrong
He discovered how the lungs worked
35
What does Laissez-Faire mean?
a lazy fairy
Lazy politicians
Determination and motivation
Not get involved in something
36
Who did Florey and Chain get money from to develop Penicillin?
USA
Fleming
Britain
Churchill
37
What was the name of the important chemical inside 'Magic Bullets'?
Sulonamide
Sulphuric Acid
Sulphonamide
Sulphoxamide
38
What was ipecacuanha used for?
Balanced the humours by making you sneeze
Balance the humours by making you vomit
Balance the humours by making you bleed
Balance the humours by removing saliva
39
Who developed the theory of the Four Humours?
Chadwick
Hippocrates
Galen
Vesalius
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In what year was the NHS set up?
1848
1948
1958
1942
