WorksheetsHistory- Medicine through time
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which isn't one of the 4 humours?
Sweat
Phlegm
Yellow Bile
Blood
Black Bile
What did Harvey spend his life studying?
The brain
Blood
Cures for diseases
The lungs
What oath do doctors have to take?
Galen's Oath
The Vesalic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath
The patients Oath
What time period is often called the “rebirth of the science of medicine.”
Dark Ages
Middle Ages
Renaissance
17th Century
Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?
Harvey
Sydenham
Vesalius
Pare
In what century was the printing press invented?
14th
15th
16th
17th
In what year did Pasteur outline his germ theory?
1851
1868
1861
1848
Why was the Public Health Act 1875 more effective than the 1848 Act?
It provided more funding for new sewers
It was compulsory
More working class men had been given the vote in 1867
Germ theory and other developments had shown that good sanitation was important
Which of these individuals understood and believed in germ theory to help their developments?
Edwin Chadwick
John Snow
Florence Nightingale
Robert Koch
Which 3 of these factors helped Florey and Chain's mass production of penicillin?
Government
Religion
Communication
War
Why was there so little progress in medicine in the middle ages?
The power of the Church
People were stupid back then
No-one found any new information
Wars between states meant government spent little on medicine
Who led the team that discovered Salvason 606, the first 'magic bullet' in 1909?
Dr Paul Erlich
Alexander Fleming
Robert Koch
Franz Beckenbauer
In what year did William Beveridge write 'The Beveridge Report' that recommended creating the NHS?
1842
1848
1942
1948
Which 2 of these are reasons why Florence Nightingale was so influential?
Communication - she wrote a book called 'Notes on Nursing'
War - she reduced infection rates from 42% to 2% in her Crimean War hospital.
Government - she persuaded the government to build free hospitals in every major city.
Germ Theory - she taught that bacteria caused disease.
Who promoted and defended Galen's work?
physician priests
Galen's students
Pharohs/emperor's
The Church
What is miasma?
Bad air
Bad breath
