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History- Medicine through time

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which isn't one of the 4 humours?

a)

Sweat

b)

Phlegm

c)

Yellow Bile

d)

Blood

e)

Black Bile

2.

What did Harvey spend his life studying?

a)

The brain

b)

Blood

c)

Cures for diseases

d)

The lungs

3.

What oath do doctors have to take?

a)

Galen's Oath

b)

The Vesalic Oath

c)

The Hippocratic Oath

d)

The patients Oath

4.

What time period is often called the “rebirth of the science of medicine.”

a)

Dark Ages

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Renaissance

d)

17th Century

5.

Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?

a)

Harvey

b)

Sydenham

c)

Vesalius

d)

Pare

6.

In what century was the printing press invented?

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

16th

d)

17th

7.

In what year did Pasteur outline his germ theory?

a)

1851

b)

1868

c)

1861

d)

1848

8.

Why was the Public Health Act 1875 more effective than the 1848 Act?

a)

It provided more funding for new sewers

b)

It was compulsory

c)

More working class men had been given the vote in 1867

d)

Germ theory and other developments had shown that good sanitation was important

9.

Which of these individuals understood and believed in germ theory to help their developments?

a)

Edwin Chadwick

b)

John Snow

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Robert Koch

10.

Which 3 of these factors helped Florey and Chain's mass production of penicillin?

a)

Government

b)

Religion

c)

Communication

d)

War

11.

Why was there so little progress in medicine in the middle ages?

a)

The power of the Church

b)

People were stupid back then

c)

No-one found any new information

d)

Wars between states meant government spent little on medicine

12.

Who led the team that discovered Salvason 606, the first 'magic bullet' in 1909?

a)

Dr Paul Erlich

b)

Alexander Fleming

c)

Robert Koch

d)

Franz Beckenbauer

13.

In what year did William Beveridge write 'The Beveridge Report' that recommended creating the NHS?

a)

1842

b)

1848

c)

1942

d)

1948

14.

Which 2 of these are reasons why Florence Nightingale was so influential?

a)

Communication - she wrote a book called 'Notes on Nursing'

b)

War - she reduced infection rates from 42% to 2% in her Crimean War hospital.

c)

Government - she persuaded the government to build free hospitals in every major city.

d)

Germ Theory - she taught that bacteria caused disease.

15.

Who promoted and defended Galen's work?

a)

physician priests

b)

Galen's students

c)

Pharohs/emperor's

d)

The Church

16.

What is miasma?

a)

Bad air

b)

Bad breath