WorksheetsHealth and the People
Total questions: 71
Worksheet time: 38mins
Why did the Medieval Church support Galen?
He seemed to support the idea of one God.
His brother was Pope
He was a priest
He was a Christian
Who copied books in the Middle Ages and so controlled what was copied?
Knights
Monks
Secretaries
Bishops
How did monks remove wastes from a monastery?
Peasants
Built toilets over streams
Built toilets outside the monastery
Carried it away in buckets
John Ardenne developed hemlock and opium as what?
Antiseptic
Laudable Pus
Miasma
Anesthetic
Name one hospital established in the Middle Ages.
Guy's
Coram's Foundling
Doncaster Royal
St Bartholomew's
The church promoted which language which enabled doctors to across Europe to communicate?
Greek
Latin
French
Spanish
Medieval Coventry had a law banning what?
Doctors
Using Opium
Toilets built over streams
Pilgrimage
What percentage of the population died from the Black Death?
10%
75%
33-50%
25%
How did Medieval people explain the Black Death?
Germs
Punishment from God
Planets in an evil alignment
Miasma
What was not a a consequence of the Black Death?
Labourers wages went up.
Peasants gained more land
London brought in Bills of Mortality
A new cure was invented
Who is the father of medicine?
Pare
Hippocrates
Nightingale
Blackwell
Acceptance of dissection of the body, invention of the printing press, and a renewed interest in medicine:
Middle ages
Dark Ages
Renaissance
Egyptians
What oath do doctors have to take?
Galen's Oath
The Vesalic Oath
The Hippocratic Oath
The patients Oath
Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?
Harvey
Sydenham
Vesalius
Pare
Who were the first to use acupuncture therapies?
Greeks
Romans
Chinese
Egyptians
Safer surgery using nitrous oxide and chloroform were discovered in what century
16th century
18th century
19th and 20th
21st century
Edward Jenner recorded the anatomy of the body
True
False
Who is the father of microbiology?
Hippocrates
Da Vinci
Jenner
Pasteur
Which isn't one of the 4 humours?
Sweat
Phlegm
Yellow Bile
Blood
Black Bile
What did Harvey spend his life studying?
The brain
Blood
Cures for diseases
The lungs
Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?
Harvey
Sydenham
Vesalius
Pare
What time period is often called the “rebirth of the science of medicine.”
Dark Ages
Middle Ages
Renaissance
17th Century
In what century was the printing press invented?
14th
15th
16th
17th
In what year did Pasteur outline his germ theory?
1851
1868
1861
1848
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
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
Why was there so little progress in medicine in the middle ages?
The power of the Church
People were stupid back then
No-one found any new information
Wars between states meant government spent little on medicine
Who led the team that discovered Salvason 606, the first 'magic bullet' in 1909?
Dr Paul Erlich
Alexander Fleming
Robert Koch
Franz Beckenbauer
In what year did William Beveridge write 'The Beveridge Report' that recommended creating the NHS?
1842
1848
1942
1948
Which 2 of these are reasons why Florence Nightingale was so influential?
Communication - she wrote a book called 'Notes on Nursing'
War - she reduced infection rates from 42% to 2% in her Crimean War hospital.
Government - she persuaded the government to build free hospitals in every major city.
Germ Theory - she taught that bacteria caused disease.
Who promoted and defended Galen's work?
physician priests
Galen's students
Pharohs/emperor's
The Church
What is miasma?
Bad air
Bad breath
What was the name of the war surgeon who discovered silk ligatures?
Harvey
Vesalius
Pare
Sydenham
What was the name of the physician who discovered more about human anatomy?
Pare
Harvey
Vesalius
Sydenham
What was the name of the physician who discovered that you needed to observe a patients symptoms before treating their illness?
Pare
Harvey
Vesalius
Sydenham
Who proved Galen's theory about invisible holes in the heart wrong?
Pare
Harvey
Vesalius
Sydenham
Which of these was not an idea about the cause of illness in the Renaissance?
Miasma
Planets
Imbalanced humours
Germs
True or false? Urine charts were still used in the Renaissance?
True
False
What was cauterisation?
Stitching a wound
Burning a wound
Cleaning a wound
Leaving a wound
Why did Pare's discovery make infection worse?
He put mud in the wound to treat it
He used insects to eat infected flesh
He did not wash his hands
He did not treat the wound itself
Did the influence of the church increase or decline in the Renaissance?
Increase
Decline
When was the Royal Society set up?
1630
1640
1650
1660
What was the Royal Society?
A group of Royals talking about their day
A group of scientists sharing their ideas
A group of men discussing running
A group of people talking about society
When did the Great Plague happen?
1663
1664
1665
1666
Which animals did the Government kill during the Great Plague?
Fleas and rats
Cats and dogs
Sheep and pigs
Mice and rabbits
True or false? In both the Black Death and the Great Plague the government used quarantine.
True
False
True or false? In both the Black Death and Great Plague people blamed the disease on animals.
True
False
True or false? In both the Black Death and Great Plague people blamed the Jews.
True
False
What was possible in the Renaissance now the Church lost some of its power?
Praying
Swearing
Dissection
Drugs
What was the name of the person which came up with the Theory of the Four Humours?
Hippocrates
Galen
Harvey
Vesalius
What was the name of the person which came up with the Theory of the Opposites?
Hippocrates
Galen
Harvey
Vesalius
When did the Black Death arrive in England?
1346
1347
1348
1349
When was the Printing Press invented?
1436
1446
1456
1466
Who invented the Printing Press?
Thomas Sydenham
William Harvey
Johannes Gutenberg
Wilhelm Rontgen
True or false? Leeches were used in the Middle Ages to get rid of bad blood.
True
False
Where were many physicians trained in anatomy and the scientific approach to medicine?
University of Cambridge
University of Paris
University of Madrid
University of Padua
Who helped spread new ideas and knowledge about science through publishing books, journals and holding meetings?
Harvey
Royal Society
Sydenham
Vesalius
Who discovered that the blood circulated round the body, and wasn't generated in the liver, disproving Galen?
Harvey
Royal Society
Sydenham
Vesalius
How many of Galen's mistakes about human anatomy did Vesalius correct?
Over 10
Over 50
Over 300
Over 1000
Which two causes of disease were a new focus after 1900?
genetics
germs
lifestyle
miasma
Which lifestyle choice became more popular from the 1920s, leading to a rise in ill health?
drinking alcohol
drug taking
fast food
smoking
Put these developments in diagnosis in the correct chronological order.
blood tests, blood sugar monitors, CT scans, X-rays
X-rays, CT scans, blood sugar monitors, blood tests
X-rays, blood tests, blood sugar monitors, CT scans
blood sugar monitors, X rays, blood tests, CT scans
In which year was the NHS launched?
1928
1938
1948
1958
Public health campaigns are an example of..?
Prevention
Diagnosis
Treatment
MRI scans are an example of...?
prevention
diagnosis
treatment
Penicillin is an example of...?
prevention
diagnosis
treatment
Who developed the mass production of penicillin?
Florey and Chain
Watson and Crick
Franklin
Ehrlich
Which event influenced the development of mass production of penicillin?
Second World War
First World War
Korean War
Vietnam War
