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Britain, Health and the People- AQA GCSE History
Britain, Health and the People- AQA GCSE History
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A History quiz to review some key facts from the AQA GCSE Medicine unit
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1
What were the three things that caused death in surgery?
Shock, infection, inexperienced surgeons
Pain, infection, bleeding
Pain, shock, infection
2
Name the two major issues that arose from the growth of towns in the Industrial Revolution.
Over- crowding and no building regulations
No building regulations and high rents
Lack of doctors and lack of houses
Over- crowding and a lack of doctors
3
What was the issue with the first public health act (1848)?
It only applied to the cities
It was not compulsory
It was voluntary
It was never passed by government
4
In what year did Pasteur discover germ theory?
1761
1861
1860
1891
5
Name 2/ 5 things the liberal government introduced to improve public health between 1905-1914
1905- Free prescriptions, 1908- Old Age Pensions
1910- Free Health Checks, 1911- National Insurance Act
1909- Labour exchanges, 1910- Free Health Checks
1906- Free School Meals for the poor, 1908- Old Age Pensions
6
In what year did Edwin Chadwick publish
a report on the health of the working poor?
1845
1863
1842
1812
7
Who first used aseptic surgery?
Lister
Simpson
Hunter
Pare
8
Who was the key individual in setting up the NHS?
Beveridge
Rowentree
Bevan
Booth
9
Who discovered micro- organisms
and made one of the first micro- scopes?
Vesalius
Koch
Van Leeuwenhoek
Jenner
10
Who introduced chloroform to surgery?
Simpson
Lister
Liston
Hunter
11
Who was the daddy of bacteriology?
Jenner
Simpson
Pasteur
Koch
12
Drugs used to prevent pain during surgery
Anaesthetics
Antiseptic
13
Which two Oxford scientists developed penicillin further, following on from Fleming's work?
Watson and Holmes
Florrey and Crick
Florey and Chain
Florey and Watson
14
A group of rich men who decided how to spend money on public health during the medieval era...
Electorate
Council
Co-operative
Corporation
15
What type of surgery was developed by McIndoe in World War Two?
Keyhole
Plastic surgery
Transplants
16
Which two businessmen published reports on poverty during the IR?
Chadwick and Rowentree
Booth and Rowentree
Rowentree and Cadbury
Booth and Snow
17
Who had breakthrough's in tackling
both
cholera and tuberchlorosis
Koch
Jenner
Chadwick
Pasteur
18
What is Karl Landsteiner famous for discovering?
Discovering that different germs cause different diseases
Discovering how diseases spread
Discovering that different blood groups exist
Discovering how cholera spread
19
Who was a Greek Doctor who moved away from superstitious beliefs and encouraged observation?
Theodoric of Lucca
Galen
Hippocrates
20
What were the Four Humours?
Yellow Bile, Phlegm (Green), Black Bile, Blue Bile
Blood (red), Snot (yellow), Phlegm (Green), Blue Bile
Blood (red), Yellow Bile, Phlegm (Green), Black Bile
21
Who discovered x-rays?
Barnard
Marie Curie
McIndoe
Roentgen
22
Attitude of the British government have towards Public Health during the IR?
Centralised
Laissez- faire.
Dictatorial
Lazy- fair
23
The First Public Health Act was in 1848 when was the second?
Second Public Health Act- 1875
Second Public Health Act- 1975
Second Public Health Act- 1879
Second Public Health Act- 1905
24
Name the two plagues we have studied
The Black Death- 1348 The Great Plague- 1665
The Black Plague- 1348 The Great Death- 1665
The Black Plague- 1348 The Great Plague- 1665
The Great Plague- 1348 The Black Death- 1665
25
Which individual developed surgery during the Renaissance?
Galen
Barnard
Pare
Vesalius
26
Who used ligatures to prove that the heart pumped blood around the body?
Harvey
Vesalius
Hunter
Pare
27
What 2/5 things did towns have to provide as stated in The Second Public Health Act?
Street lighting! - Free health checks!
Sewage disposal! Public baths!
Clean water! Sewage disposal!
-Improved drainage!-Public toilets!
28
What medieval group of buildings did maintain their drainage and water systems?
Manors
Castles
Bath houses
Monasteries.
29
What were the three things that caused death in surgery?
Pain, shock, infection
Pain, infection, bleeding
Shock, infection, inexperienced surgeons
30
Who was a surgeon most famous as a teacher of anatomy, training others such as Jenner?
Hunter
Harvey
Pare
Vesalius
31
Which International Organisation works to try and tackle problems of disease and infection?
Amnesty International
World Wildlife Foundation
World Health Organisation (WHO)
UNICEF
32
One Magic bullets was was Salversan 606, can you name the other?
Penicillin
Prontosil
Chloera
Ether
33
Surgery that is sterile (germ free). This includes sterilising the theatre and surgical tools.
Anaestethic
Antiseptic
Antibiotic
Aseptic
34
Who was against the welfare state?
British Medical Association
Bevan
Churchill
Beveridge
35
Which factor played a key in making penicillin a mass produced drug?
Key individuals
Chance
Government
War
36
Who discovered that Cholera was being spread through water?
Bevan
Chadwick
Booth
Snow
37
Who created the idea of 'the five giants of evil'?
Lloyd- George
Bevan
Chadwick
Beveridge
38
In what year was the Great Stink?
1748
1848
1898
1858
39
Who proved that every disease was caused by different germs by staining microbes?
Koch
Pasteur
Jenner
Chadwick
40
Which two groups thought that the state should pay for services around welfare?
Labour Party and Trade Unions
Trade Unions and doctors
Labour Party and doctors
Conservative Party and Trade Unions
41
Who proved how Jenner's theory of vaccination worked?
Koch
Pasteur
Hunter
Vesalius
42
Which chemical was used for pain relief but caused damage to the lungs?
Mandragora
Ether
Carbolic Acid
Opium
43
Who was an Islamic doctor who wrote 450 books/ papers about medicine?
Avicenna
Galen
Ibn Sina
Jenner
44
Which surgeon first made people surgeons wash their hands before delivering children?
Simpson
Lister
Semmelweiss
Theodoric of Lucca
45
Which factor was key in the discovery of penicillin?
Key individuals
Chance
War
Religion
