Medicine in Britain 1250-Present (includes questions on modern period)

Question 1

Who was influential in nursing?

Accepted Answer

Florence Nightingale

Question 2

Who ran hospitals 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Monks and Nuns

Question 3

What was passed in 1946?

Accepted Answer

NHS Bill

Question 4

When was the NHS established?

Accepted Answer

1948

Question 5

Which disease did the government create a national campaign against in 1942?

Accepted Answer

Diphtheria

Question 6

What does the NHS stand for?

Accepted Answer

National Health Service

Question 7

Who came up with the theory of 4 humours?

Accepted Answer

Hippocrates

Question 8

When was the structure of DNA discovered?

Accepted Answer

1953

Question 9

Who came up with the theory of opposites?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 10

Who discovered the cause of the cholera epidemic?

Accepted Answer

John Snow

Question 11

Who discovered the structure of DNA?

Accepted Answer

Crick and Watson

Question 12

What year was the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

1665

Question 13

Which of the below are lifestyle factors?

Accepted Answer

Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol

Question 14

What is the aim of radiotherapy?

Accepted Answer

Using beams of radiation to kill cancer cells

Question 15

What was an apothecary?

Accepted Answer

Chemist

Question 16

What centuries are in the industrial period?

Accepted Answer

18th and 19th

Question 17

Who developed the first vaccine?

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

Question 18

Who discovered germ theory?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 19

Who developed the first antiseptic?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 20

Who was the first to discover penicillin?

Accepted Answer

Fleming

Question 21

What were the 4 humours?

Accepted Answer

Black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm

Question 22

What does CT scan stand for?

Accepted Answer

Computerised Tomography

Question 23

What year was the second public health act of this period?

Accepted Answer

1875

Question 24

What plant does aspirin come from?

Accepted Answer

Willow Bark

Question 25

What year was the Black Death?

Accepted Answer

1348

Question 26

What did the government ban in 2007?

Accepted Answer

Smoking in public places

Question 27

Who was involved in the mass production of penicillin?

Accepted Answer

Florey and Chain

Question 28

How is the NHS funded?

Accepted Answer

The tax payer

Question 29

Change for life is a campaign to encourage...

Accepted Answer

Exercise and healthy eating

Question 30

What was trepanning?

Accepted Answer

Cutting a hole in your skull

Question 31

What did Vesalius discover?

Accepted Answer

The anatomy of the human body

Question 32

What is a common treatment for cancer?

Accepted Answer

Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy

Question 33

How many false teeth were made during the first 9 months of the NHS?

Accepted Answer

33 million

Question 34

What was a flagellant?

Accepted Answer

Someone who whipped themselves as a cure

Question 35

Which artist dissected bodies to paint them accurately?

Accepted Answer

Leonard Da Vinci

Question 36

What does miasma mean?

Accepted Answer

Bad smells

Question 37

What year was the Clean Air Act passed?

Accepted Answer

1956

Question 38

What controlled education and medicine 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Church

Question 39

What is stoptober?

Accepted Answer

Campaign to get people to quit smoking for whole of october

Question 40

When was the printing press invented?

Accepted Answer

1436

Question 41

What surgeries were common 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Cataracts, piles, tooth removal

Question 42

How did they stop the spread of the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

Road cleaners, Closed theatres, red crosses on doors

Question 43

What did Charles II set up in the renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

Royal Society

Question 44

Who discovered microbes?

Accepted Answer

Robert Koch

Question 45

What did Pare discover?

Accepted Answer

Ligatures to stop bleeding

Question 46

What was Salvarson 606?

Accepted Answer

Magic Bullet

Question 47

What year was the cholera epidemic?

Accepted Answer

1854

Question 48

Where might you go for basic surgery?

Accepted Answer

Barber surgeon

Question 49

What did James Simpson use as an anaesthetic?

Accepted Answer

Chloroform

Question 50

What did Harvey discover?

Accepted Answer

How bloody pumped around the body

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