Time Travelling Ducktors

Question 1

The study of the effects of chemicals on an organism is what?

Accepted Answer

Toxicology

Question 2

What did Victorian era doctors rely on to heal their patients?

Accepted Answer

Prayer

Question 3

How did Victorian doctors feel about treating children?

Accepted Answer

Fearful because of the high morbidity rate

Question 4

What makes something not a poison?

Accepted Answer

Dosage

Question 5

What determined if someone received doctor’s assistance during a crisis in Victorian society?

Accepted Answer

Money

Question 6

Dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skills in some field is what?

Accepted Answer

Quackery

Question 7

What abolished medical care in workhouses?

Accepted Answer

Metropolitan Law Amendment Act

Question 8

What is the “doctor’s shop”?

Accepted Answer

A doctor’s office that practices quack medicine

Question 9

What types of hospitals did the lower class attend?

Accepted Answer

Charitable Hospitals

Question 10

Who is the father of the modern science of toxicology?

Accepted Answer

Hohenheim

Question 11

For those who could not afford school in Victorian England, what alternative did they turn to?

Accepted Answer

A self-taught education

Question 12

What social class was hit the hardest by epidemics?

Accepted Answer

Lower Class

Question 13

Drugs can have either a ____________ effect or a ____________ effect.

Accepted Answer

Therapeutic/Toxic

Question 14

Poor Laws let people work in workhouses in trade for treatment. When were these laws made?

Accepted Answer

1834

Question 15

Because they were fearful, who did they send their kids to for doctoring?

Accepted Answer

Midwives and nurses

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