Worksheets20 things about Health
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
When was the microscope invented?
1500
1600
1700
1800
Why was the invention of the microscope essential for Medical Progress?
Could see miasmas
Proved Copernicus was right
See the Four Humours
See germs for first time
Who discovered germs caused disease and not the other way round?
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur
Paul Ehrlich
Joseph Lister
Now he knew about germs Pasteur could develop a vaccine. What was it a vaccine against?
smallpox
rabies
measles
influenza
Who taught Edward Jenner the skills of careful observation & scientific method?
John Hunter
Edwin Chadwick
Louis Pasteur
William Harvey
Why didn't Jenner not make a second vaccine after the success of Smallpox vaccine?
He didn't believe it was possible
Without germ theory he didn't know how it worked
He was lazy
He died a year after the vaccine was first used.
Cholera arrived in UK by 1831. When did John Snow discover it was spread by water?
1848
1854
1875
1906
Cholera scared Parliament enough to make the pass what?
1972 Artisans Dwelling Act
1875 Public Health Act
1911 National Insurance Act
1948 NHS Act
When the NHS was set up what did Nye Bevan call 'stuffing their mouths with gold'?
Banning them from talking to the papers
Allowing doctors to keep private paying patients
Allowing doctors to also be dentists
Giving free fillings
As a factor, how does the Government help Health?
Makes new discoveries
Inspires individuals
Spreads treatment to a wider group of people
Spreads knowledge quicker
Because he could not dissect humans, which of these are mistakes Galen made?
That blood was made in the liver and burnt up in muscles
Hair grows from muscles
Humans have two eyes
The jaw is made up of two bones
Why could no one challenge Galen's ideas in the Middle Ages?
No one knew Galen existed
Galen had been made a saint
Dissection was not allowed
Galen's work was all in Latin and no one understood it
Why was Alexander inspired to look for an antibiotic like penicillin?
He was a collector of mold.
He heard Paul Ehrlich speak about the limits of Salvarsan 606.
He studied under John Hunter
He had seen many men die of infection during WW1
What chance event helped Fleming discover penicillin?
He bought a moldy loaf at a corner shop
He went back to check the 606th sample
Petri dishes out with staphylococci germs & went on hols
Brian Chance was his Lab Assistant
After discovering blood was pumped round the body why couldn't Harvey do blood transfusion?
He fainted when he saw blood
He didn't know about blood groups
He didn't think men and women should share blood
He didn't want to upset Galen
Who were the only people copying medical books in the early Middle Ages?
Monks
Priests
Galen
Knights
Name a hospital run by the church and paid for by charity giving?
Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Coram Foundling Hospital
Guy's
St Bartholomew's
When did Karl Landsteiner discover blood groups?
1888
1901
1856
1937
Why did some Christians not like chloroform?
It wasn't mentioned in the Bible
They felt the Bible said that woman 'should bring forth children in sorrow'
It used to catch fire
They didn't like drugs
What was some of the problems with using chloroform?
It allowed doctors to cut deeper and spread infection
The doctors became addicted.
It use to catch on fire.
A wrong dose could kill eg Hannah Greener
