Core Facts 5 Mostly Essays

What motivated Alexander Fleming to find an antibiotic to treat streptococci infection?

• He hoped for a Noble Prize

• His son was infected with it

• He saw many men die of it in World War 1

• He thought it would lead to a cure for cholera

Penicillin mould floated through the lab window and landed on petri dishes of germs, showing it was an antibiotic. Why were the petri dishes left out?

• It was a deliberate policy

• He was sulking after he felt his work wasn't appreciated

• He did it to get his own back on the Lab Assistant

• Fleming was going on holiday and didn't clear up.

What was Fleming's individual genius in discovering penicillin?

• He recognised the mould in the dish was an antibiotic

• He was an expert of different kinds of mould

• He was a very able lecturer

• He never gave up on a discovery when he made it

How did Ernst Chain discover Fleming's work?

• He attended a lecture Fleming gave

• He read up Fleming's notes on his experiments

• He saw a film in which Fleming talked about antibiotics

• He met Fleming in a pub

What method did Florey and Chain use to mass produce Penicillin?

• Palatalisation

• Peculation

• Freeze-Dry

• Spectrum ANalysis

Why did the US Government pay to mass produce penicillin?

• To save lives in the Deep South

• To prove they were better than Germany

• To stop the British getting it

• To cure soldiers and get back fighting

How did James Simpson test the pain killers [anaesthetics]?

• On himself

• on mice

• on frogs

• on orphans

Why was chloroform a major breakthrough for surgeons?

• It cheered up the patients

• It allowed surgeons to cut deeper and do operations like cut out infected appendices.

• It allowed people to be awake during surgery

• It was religiously acceptable

What motivated Howard Gillies to develop skin grafts?

• He wanted to win a prize

• He wanted to rebuild the faces of soldiers in WW1

• He was inspired by his cousin who worked on Spitfire pilots

• His family had always wanted to achieve this

How did John Snow prove cholera was spread by water

• Mapped out Cholera deaths and saw they centred on a water pump

• Made orphans drink water from different pumps

• Experimented on mice

• Looked at the average age of death in different areas