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Health and the People

Total questions: 71

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did the Medieval Church support Galen?

a)

He seemed to support the idea of one God.

b)

His brother was Pope

c)

He was a priest

d)

He was a Christian

2.

Who copied books in the Middle Ages and so controlled what was copied?

a)

Knights

b)

Monks

c)

Secretaries

d)

Bishops

3.

How did monks remove wastes from a monastery?

a)

Peasants

b)

Built toilets over streams

c)

Built toilets outside the monastery

d)

Carried it away in buckets

4.

John Ardenne developed hemlock and opium as what?

a)

Antiseptic

b)

Laudable Pus

c)

Miasma

d)

Anesthetic

5.

Name one hospital established in the Middle Ages.

a)

Guy's

b)

Coram's Foundling

c)

Doncaster Royal

d)

St Bartholomew's

6.

The church promoted which language which enabled doctors to across Europe to communicate?

a)

Greek

b)

Latin

c)

French

d)

Spanish

7.

Medieval Coventry had a law banning what?

a)

Doctors

b)

Using Opium

c)

Toilets built over streams

d)

Pilgrimage

8.

What percentage of the population died from the Black Death?

a)

10%

b)

75%

c)

33-50%

d)

25%

9.

How did Medieval people explain the Black Death?

a)

Germs

b)

Punishment from God

c)

Planets in an evil alignment

d)

Miasma

10.

What was not a a consequence of the Black Death?

a)

Labourers wages went up.

b)

Peasants gained more land

c)

London brought in Bills of Mortality

d)

A new cure was invented

11.

Who is the father of medicine?

a)

Pare

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Nightingale

d)

Blackwell

12.

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

13.

What oath do doctors have to take?

a)

Galen's Oath

b)

The Vesalic Oath

c)

The Hippocratic Oath

d)

The patients Oath

14.

Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?

a)

Harvey

b)

Sydenham

c)

Vesalius

d)

Pare

15.

Who were the first to use acupuncture therapies?

a)

Greeks

b)

Romans

c)

Chinese

d)

Egyptians

16.

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

17.

Edward Jenner recorded the anatomy of the body

a)

True

b)

False

18.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by 
a)
Sir Alexander Fleming
b)
Dr. Philippe Pinel
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
William Roentgen
19.
Founder of modern nursing.
a)
Benjamin Franklin
b)
Sir Alexander Fleming
c)
Clara Barton
d)
Florence Nightengale
20.

Who is the father of microbiology?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Da Vinci

c)

Jenner

d)

Pasteur

21.

Which isn't one of the 4 humours?

a)

Sweat

b)

Phlegm

c)

Yellow Bile

d)

Blood

e)

Black Bile

22.

What did Harvey spend his life studying?

a)

The brain

b)

Blood

c)

Cures for diseases

d)

The lungs

23.

Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?

a)

Harvey

b)

Sydenham

c)

Vesalius

d)

Pare

24.

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

a)

Dark Ages

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Renaissance

d)

17th Century

25.

In what century was the printing press invented?

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

16th

d)

17th

26.

In what year did Pasteur outline his germ theory?

a)

1851

b)

1868

c)

1861

d)

1848

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

a)

Government

b)

Religion

c)

Communication

d)

War

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

a)

1842

b)

1848

c)

1942

d)

1948

33.

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.

34.

Who promoted and defended Galen's work?

a)

physician priests

b)

Galen's students

c)

Pharohs/emperor's

d)

The Church

35.

What is miasma?

a)

Bad air

b)

Bad breath

36.

What was the name of the war surgeon who discovered silk ligatures?

a)

Harvey

b)

Vesalius

c)

Pare

d)

Sydenham

37.

What was the name of the physician who discovered more about human anatomy?

a)

Pare

b)

Harvey

c)

Vesalius

d)

Sydenham

38.

What was the name of the physician who discovered that you needed to observe a patients symptoms before treating their illness?

a)

Pare

b)

Harvey

c)

Vesalius

d)

Sydenham

39.

Who proved Galen's theory about invisible holes in the heart wrong?

a)

Pare

b)

Harvey

c)

Vesalius

d)

Sydenham

40.

Which of these was not an idea about the cause of illness in the Renaissance?

a)

Miasma

b)

Planets

c)

Imbalanced humours

d)

Germs

41.

True or false? Urine charts were still used in the Renaissance?

a)

True

b)

False

42.

What was cauterisation?

a)

Stitching a wound

b)

Burning a wound

c)

Cleaning a wound

d)

Leaving a wound

43.

Why did Pare's discovery make infection worse?

a)

He put mud in the wound to treat it

b)

He used insects to eat infected flesh

c)

He did not wash his hands

d)

He did not treat the wound itself

44.

Did the influence of the church increase or decline in the Renaissance?

a)

Increase

b)

Decline

45.

When was the Royal Society set up?

a)

1630

b)

1640

c)

1650

d)

1660

46.

What was the Royal Society?

a)

A group of Royals talking about their day

b)

A group of scientists sharing their ideas

c)

A group of men discussing running

d)

A group of people talking about society

47.

When did the Great Plague happen?

a)

1663

b)

1664

c)

1665

d)

1666

48.

Which animals did the Government kill during the Great Plague?

a)

Fleas and rats

b)

Cats and dogs

c)

Sheep and pigs

d)

Mice and rabbits

49.

True or false? In both the Black Death and the Great Plague the government used quarantine.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

True or false? In both the Black Death and Great Plague people blamed the disease on animals.

a)

True

b)

False

51.

True or false? In both the Black Death and Great Plague people blamed the Jews.

a)

True

b)

False

52.

What was possible in the Renaissance now the Church lost some of its power?

a)

Praying

b)

Swearing

c)

Dissection

d)

Drugs

53.

What was the name of the person which came up with the Theory of the Four Humours?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Galen

c)

Harvey

d)

Vesalius

54.

What was the name of the person which came up with the Theory of the Opposites?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Galen

c)

Harvey

d)

Vesalius

55.

When did the Black Death arrive in England?

a)

1346

b)

1347

c)

1348

d)

1349

56.

When was the Printing Press invented?

a)

1436

b)

1446

c)

1456

d)

1466

57.

Who invented the Printing Press?

a)

Thomas Sydenham

b)

William Harvey

c)

Johannes Gutenberg

d)

Wilhelm Rontgen

58.

True or false? Leeches were used in the Middle Ages to get rid of bad blood.

a)

True

b)

False

59.

Where were many physicians trained in anatomy and the scientific approach to medicine?

a)

University of Cambridge

b)

University of Paris

c)

University of Madrid

d)

University of Padua

60.

Who helped spread new ideas and knowledge about science through publishing books, journals and holding meetings?

a)

Harvey

b)

Royal Society

c)

Sydenham

d)

Vesalius

61.

Who discovered that the blood circulated round the body, and wasn't generated in the liver, disproving Galen?

a)

Harvey

b)

Royal Society

c)

Sydenham

d)

Vesalius

62.

How many of Galen's mistakes about human anatomy did Vesalius correct?

a)

Over 10

b)

Over 50

c)

Over 300

d)

Over 1000

63.

Which two causes of disease were a new focus after 1900?

a)

genetics

b)

germs

c)

lifestyle

d)

miasma

64.

Which lifestyle choice became more popular from the 1920s, leading to a rise in ill health?

a)

drinking alcohol

b)

drug taking

c)

fast food

d)

smoking

65.

Put these developments in diagnosis in the correct chronological order.

a)

blood tests, blood sugar monitors, CT scans, X-rays

b)

X-rays, CT scans, blood sugar monitors, blood tests

c)

X-rays, blood tests, blood sugar monitors, CT scans

d)

blood sugar monitors, X rays, blood tests, CT scans

66.

In which year was the NHS launched?

a)

1928

b)

1938

c)

1948

d)

1958

67.

Public health campaigns are an example of..?

a)

Prevention

b)

Diagnosis

c)

Treatment

68.

MRI scans are an example of...?

a)

prevention

b)

diagnosis

c)

treatment

69.

Penicillin is an example of...?

a)

prevention

b)

diagnosis

c)

treatment

70.

Who developed the mass production of penicillin?

a)

Florey and Chain

b)

Watson and Crick

c)

Franklin

d)

Ehrlich

71.

Which event influenced the development of mass production of penicillin?

a)

Second World War

b)

First World War

c)

Korean War

d)

Vietnam War