Industrial Era Medicine

What was the 18th century idea that decay caused microbes rather than the other way around? S_____ G______

Who discovered germs in 1861?

• Joseph Lister

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur

• John Snow

Who read 'germ theory' and linked it to infection in surgery?

• Joseph Lister

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur

• John Snow

Who found out that different germs cause different diseases?

• Joseph Lister

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur

• John Snow

Florence Nightingale used her nursing expertise to improve hospital care during which war?

• The Boer War in the 1890s

• The First World War in the 1910s

• The Crimean War in the 1850s

• The Franco Prussian war in the 1870s

Who discovered chloroform as an anaesthetic?

• Joseph Bazalgette

• Edward Jenner

• Robert Liston

• James Simpson

Who invented the smallpox vaccination?

• Joseph Bazalgette

• Edward Jenner

• Robert Liston

• James Simpson

When was the second Public Health Act?

• 1848

• 1854

• 1862

• 1875

Who discovered that a cholera outbreak in London was caused by dirty water?

• Joseph Bazalgette

• Robert Koch

• Joseph Lister

• John Snow

Which of these is the correct chronological order, in terms of their most noteable achievement or discovery?

• Jenner, Koch, Lister, Nightingale, Pasteur, Simpson

• Jenner, Simpson, Nightingale, Pasteur, Lister, Koch

• Lister, Simpson, Nightingale, Pasteur, Jenner, Koch

• Jenner, Nightingale, Simpson, Lister, Pasteur, Koch