Medicine in Britain 1250-Present (Edexcel)

Question 1

What did Pare discover?

Accepted Answer

Ligatures to stop bleeding

Question 2

What did Vesalius discover?

Accepted Answer

The anatomy of the human body

Question 3

Who ran hospitals 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Monks and Nuns

Question 4

What was a flagellant?

Accepted Answer

Someone who whipped themselves as a cure

Question 5

What year was the Black Death?

Accepted Answer

1348

Question 6

Who came up with the theory of 4 humours?

Accepted Answer

Hippocrates

Question 7

Who was involved in the mass production of penicillin?

Accepted Answer

Florey and Chain

Question 8

What year was the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

1665

Question 9

What did Harvey discover?

Accepted Answer

How bloody pumped around the body

Question 10

When was the NHS established?

Accepted Answer

1948

Question 11

What does miasma mean?

Accepted Answer

Bad smells

Question 12

What year was the cholera epidemic?

Accepted Answer

1854

Question 13

Change for life is a campaign to encourage...

Accepted Answer

Exercise and healthy eating

Question 14

Which artist dissected bodies to paint them accurately?

Accepted Answer

Leonard Da Vinci

Question 15

What was an apothecary?

Accepted Answer

Chemist

Question 16

Who discovered microbes?

Accepted Answer

Robert Koch

Question 17

When was the structure of DNA discovered?

Accepted Answer

1953

Question 18

What were the 4 humours?

Accepted Answer

Black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm

Question 19

Who came up with the theory of opposites?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 20

What surgeries were common 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Cataracts, piles, tooth removal

Question 21

What was trepanning?

Accepted Answer

Cutting a hole in your skull

Question 22

Who developed the first vaccine?

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

Question 23

When was the printing press invented?

Accepted Answer

1436

Question 24

What did James Simpson use as an anaesthetic?

Accepted Answer

Chloroform

Question 25

Who was influential in nursing?

Accepted Answer

Florence Nightingale

Question 26

What plant does aspirin come from?

Accepted Answer

Willow Bark

Question 27

How did they stop the spread of the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

Closed theatres, red crosses on doors, Road cleaners

Question 28

What was passed in 1946?

Accepted Answer

NHS Bill

Question 29

Where might you go for basic surgery?

Accepted Answer

Barber surgeon

Question 30

What was Salvarson 606?

Accepted Answer

Magic Bullet

Question 31

What centuries are in the industrial period?

Accepted Answer

18th and 19th

Question 32

Who discovered the cause of the cholera epidemic?

Accepted Answer

John Snow

Question 33

What did Charles II set up in the renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

Royal Society

Question 34

Who discovered the structure of DNA?

Accepted Answer

Crick and Watson

Question 35

What controlled education and medicine 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Church

Question 36

Who developed the first antiseptic?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Lister

Question 37

Which of the below are lifestyle factors?

Accepted Answer

Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

1875

Question 39

Who discovered germ theory?

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 40

Who was the first to discover penicillin?

Accepted Answer

Fleming

Medicine in Britain 1250-Present (Edexcel)

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