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AQA (Health and the People)

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these individuals were responsible for the Canon of Medicine?

a)

Avicenna

b)

Rhazes

c)

John of Arderne

d)

Abulcasis

2.

Which of these is not a way you could be treated in the medieval times?

a)

Barber Surgeon

b)

Wise Women

c)

University Trained Surgeon

d)

Apothecary

3.

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

4.

Which of these men was not believed initially due to his criticism of Galen?

a)

Pare

b)

Harvey

c)

Vesalius

d)

Sydenham

5.

Acceptance of dissection of the body, invention of the printing press, and a renewed interest in medicine:

a)

Middle ages

b)

Dark Ages

c)

Renaissance

d)

Egyptians

6.
Who discovered the vaccine for smallpox and actually coined the term "vaccine"?
a)
Davy
b)
Pare 
c)
Snow 
d)
Jenner 
7.

Who is the father of microbiology?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Da Vinci

c)

Jenner

d)

Pasteur

8.
Founder of modern nursing.
a)
Benjamin Franklin
b)
Sir Alexander Fleming
c)
Clara Barton
d)
Florence Nightengale
9.

Safer surgery using nitrous oxide and chloroform were discovered in what century

a)

16th century

b)

18th century

c)

19th and 20th

d)

21st century

10.
Discovered X-rays in 1895
a)
William Harvey
b)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
c)
Robert Koch
d)
William Roentgen
11.

Which of the Individuals below did not help Public Health in the 1800s

a)

Joseph Bazalgette

b)

Edwin Chadwick

c)

Seebohm Rowntree

d)

John Snow

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.

Antibiotics were discovered in what century?

a)

20th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

21st

14.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by 
a)
Sir Alexander Fleming
b)
Dr. Philippe Pinel
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
William Roentgen
15.

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

a)

Government

b)

Religion

c)

Communication

d)

War

16.

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

a)

1842

b)

1848

c)

1942

d)

1948

17.

Which of these was not a factor behind the introduction of the Liberal Reforms?

a)

Poor health of the population during the Boer War

b)

Seebohm Rowntree's study of York

c)

Charles Booth's study of London

d)

William Beveridge's report