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Industrial Era Medicine

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the 18th century idea that decay caused microbes rather than the other way around? S_____ G______

(a)  

2.

Who discovered germs in 1861?

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

John Snow

3.

Who read 'germ theory' and linked it to infection in surgery?

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

John Snow

4.

Who found out that different germs cause different diseases?

a)

Joseph Lister

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

John Snow

5.

Florence Nightingale used her nursing expertise to improve hospital care during which war?

a)

The Boer War in the 1890s

b)

The First World War in the 1910s

c)

The Crimean War in the 1850s

d)

The Franco Prussian war in the 1870s

6.

Who discovered chloroform as an anaesthetic?

a)

Joseph Bazalgette

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

Robert Liston

d)

James Simpson

7.

Who invented the smallpox vaccination?

a)

Joseph Bazalgette

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

Robert Liston

d)

James Simpson

8.

When was the second Public Health Act?

a)

1848

b)

1854

c)

1862

d)

1875

9.

Who discovered that a cholera outbreak in London was caused by dirty water?

a)

Joseph Bazalgette

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Joseph Lister

d)

John Snow

10.

Which of these is the correct chronological order, in terms of their most noteable achievement or discovery?

a)

Jenner, Koch, Lister, Nightingale, Pasteur, Simpson

b)

Jenner, Simpson, Nightingale, Pasteur, Lister, Koch

c)

Lister, Simpson, Nightingale, Pasteur, Jenner, Koch

d)

Jenner, Nightingale, Simpson, Lister, Pasteur, Koch