Industrial Medicine

Question 1

When was nitrous oxide invented and who by?

Answer 1

• 1844

- Humphry Davy

Question 2

When was chloroform created and who by?

Answer 2

• 1847

- James Simpson

Question 3

What did John Snow discover?

Answer 3

• Makes link between cholera and dirty water by a pump

- Idea not accepted until 50 years after

Question 4

When and what was the Chadwick report?

Answer 4

• 1842
• Discovered the link between poor living conditions and health
• Commisioned by government

Question 5

Who created the sewage system and when?

Answer 5

• Joseph Bazalgette

- 1865

Question 6

When did Lister publish Carbolic acid as antiseptic?

Answer 6

-1867

Question 7

Who created aseptic gloves and ?

Answer 7

William Halstead

Question 8

What did Lister’s mortality rate fall from and to?

Answer 8

46% to 15%

Question 9

When was the first public health?

Answer 9

1848

Question 10

Second public health act date?

Answer 10

1875

Question 11

What did Robert Koch do?

Answer 11

Stained germs and found that different microbes caused different diseases

Question 12

Nightingale’s book and date?

Answer 12

• Notes on Nursing

- 1863

Question 13

Who lectured Pasteur’s ideas?

Answer 13

Roberts, Cheyne and Tyndal?

Question 14

How many people died from cholera and when?

Answer 14

• 50,000

- 1848

Question 15

X-rays discovered by who and when?

Answer 15

• Marie Curie
• 1895
• Used in WW1

Question 16

Who created lab made vaccines and what for?

Answer 16

• Pasteur

- Rabies and anthrax

Question 17

When were food and drug laws made?

Answer 17

1880s