Medicine Through Time Overview

Question 1

Which of these is NOT a humour?

Accepted Answer

Green Bile

Question 2

What industry did Florey and Chain use to help mass-produce penicillin?

Accepted Answer

Ice-cream factory

Question 3

Which of these was NOT believed to be a causes of illness during the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

Germs

Question 4

The second magic bullet, Prontosil, was good against what?

Accepted Answer

Blood poisoning

Question 5

The Public Health Act of 1875 made towns appoint what?

Accepted Answer

Health/Sanitary Inspectors and a Medical Officer of Health

Question 6

The printing press allowed for what during the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

The production of works in local language, The communication of new ideas

Question 7

Pasteur worked on which type of cholera?

Accepted Answer

Chicken

Question 8

In what year did Pasteur publish his germ theory?

Accepted Answer

1861

Question 9

Which of these is NOT a result of the discovery of DNA?

Accepted Answer

Healthy eating campaigns

Question 10

The Great Plague happened in what year?

Accepted Answer

1665

Question 11

Which of the following was done to try and contain the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

Close theaters to prevent crowds gathering, Kill the dogs and cats

Question 12

A barber-surgeon did what?

Accepted Answer

Bloodletting, Cut your hair

Question 13

Which of these reasons allowed Christianity to take control over medicine after the Romans left

Accepted Answer

Priests could read and write, It was an important channel of communicaiton

Question 14

Florence Nightingale did which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Established a training school for nurses, Published over 200 books about hospital design/organisation, Raised the professionalism of nurses

Question 15

Vesalius proved which of Galen's mistakes?

Accepted Answer

Lower jaw was made up of two bones, Sternum had seven parts

Question 16

Which of these was a treatment for the black death?

Accepted Answer

Praying, Eating cool things

Question 17

Koch used what method to identify different microbes causing disease?

Accepted Answer

Koch stains

Question 18

The National Insurance Act of 1911 provided what?

Accepted Answer

Free treatment/medicine + some sick pay for workers

Question 19

Who discovered the structure of DNA?

Accepted Answer

Crick and Watson

Question 20

Harvey proved which of Galen's mistakes?

Accepted Answer

Veins carry a mixture of blood and air, Blood is constantly manufactured by the liver

Question 21

Which of these is NOT a factor that helped make public health good during the Roman period?

Accepted Answer

Religion

Questions 21