GCSE History Edexcel Medicine

Who first used chloroform?

What year was the second public health act introduced?

The 'Great Plague' was in what year?

What year was germ theory developed?

Which of these is not a reason Galen's work continued to be influential in the Middle Ages?

During which war did Florence Nightingale make changes to the treatment of soldiers?

What was the name of the street that John Snow had a water pump turned off?

The 'Black death' was in what year?

The first magic bullet cured what disease?

During the renaissance period new herbal remedies were used due to the discovery of what?

What method was used to prevent smallpox before Jenner's vaccination?

Who promoted the ideas of observation over believing what you read?

What year was the printing press invented?

The NHS was introduced in what year?

Who discovered how blood circulated around the body?

Who was the famous anatomist who discovered errors in Gaen's work?

Who developed the idea of germ theory to create vaccinations and win a Nobel prize in 1905?

What was the name of the list of instructions given to prevent disease in the Middle Ages?

Which of these was not a type of blood letting used to treat disease in the Middle Ages?

By 1500, there were how many hospitals in England?

Who gave the Royal society it's royal charter?

How days were the inhabitants of an infected house quarantines for?

Which English doctor rejected germ theory?

What is iatrochemistry?

Who first used carbolic acid to lower infection?