WorksheetsIndustrial Era Medicine
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What was the 18th century idea that decay caused microbes rather than the other way around? S_____ G______
(a)
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
