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WorksheetsMedicine Retrieval Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which isn't one of the 4 humours?
Sweat
Phlegm
Yellow Bile
Blood
Black Bile
What time period is often called the “rebirth of the science of medicine.”
Dark Ages
Middle Ages
Renaissance
17th Century
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
Who promoted and defended Galen's work?
physician priests
Galen's students
Pharohs/emperor's
The Church
What is miasma?
Bad air
Bad breath
The British Government made the Vaccination compulsory in
1798
1802
1835
1853
Acceptance of dissection of the body, invention of the printing press, and a renewed interest in medicine:
Middle ages
Dark Ages
Renaissance
Egyptians
When was the National Health service created?
1948
1949
1950
In what century was the printing press invented?
14th
15th
16th
17th
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
When did the Church and Christian believes play the greatest role in medicine?
Medieval times
The Renaissance / Early Modern times
The industrial era
The modern era
In which period did communications greatly improve due to the invention and spread of the printing press?
Medieval times
The Renaissance / Early Modern times
The industrial era
The modern era
Who was Edwin Chadwick and how did he try to help improve public health?
An engineer who built the London Sewer system
A surgeon who took the handle off the broad street pump to stop the outbreak of Cholera
A scientist that discovered Germ Theory
Lawyer and social reformer. He tried to convince the government to spend money on public health as healthier workers meant more money for the country
