Monster Medicine Quiz

Who developed the theory of the four humours?

Who performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967?

What major disease broke out in 1348?

Who came up with the first plastic surgery to repair the faces of soldiers returning from war?

How did Paré come up with a new treatment for gunshot wounds?

Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups in 1901 - what problem did this solve?

What did Paul Ehrlich discover?

Who worked out that blood circulates the blood in one direction?

What antiseptic was developed to combat infection?

Which of these is a modern public health measure?

Which pair were able to mass produce penicillin (with help from the US government)?

Who wrote a report in 1842 about the sanitary conditions of working people?

What form of surgery was performed during the prehistoric period?

What medical university allowed dissection in the Roman period?

Who backed Galen's ideas and taught his theories?

Edward Jenner came up with the first what?

What happened in the summer of 1858 that led to the building of sewers in London?

Who wrote a report recommending a welfare state (pensions and free health care)?

In what year was the NHS introduced?

What was the name of the Greek god of health?

Who developed a way of staining germs so they could be identified?

What happened to public health in the middle ages?

When were aqueducts, fountains, public toilets, bath houses, sewers built?

What monarch used chloroform during childbirth and made it acceptable to use?

Who discovered that penicillin kills bacteria?

Which Renaissance doctor discovered that the jaw is made of one bone?

What did Crick and Watson discover?

Which Roman doctor influenced medicine for over 1400 years?

In what year was the first non-compulsory public health act?

Why did the Romans want a good public health system?

Pasteur's germ theory said that germs cause...................?

In what year was the compulsory public health act?

Who developed the germ theory?

The development of 'what' helped Vesalius to spread his ideas and discoveries?

What party came into power in 1906 and made public health reforms?

Who is the best history teacher in the world?

What disease did Jenner's vaccination tackle?

What was the first anaesthetic developed by Humphrey Davy?

In which time period would you have found the Channel Theory?

Who made the connection between contaminated water and  cholera?

Who discovered and first used chloroform?

Why did some people oppose Lister's carbolic spray?