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What did Rhazes achieve?
The first accurate descriptions of measles and smallpox.
What has CAR got to do with understanding about the vaccines that Louis Pasteur developed?
C = chicken cholera A = anthrax in sheep R = rabies in humans
What was the Hippocratic collection?
A collection of books covering many aspects of medicine written by Hippocrates. They were used for centuries.
How did the Nazis ensure they did so well in this election?
Opponents were killed, Sa and police pressure at polling booths, the Nazis’ anti-Communist message reinforced on radio.
How many Austrians voted in favour of Anschluss in the April 1938 plebiscite?
99%
Define supernatural explanations of disease.
Explanations based on beliefs rather than anything physical.
How old was Elizabeth when she became Queen?
25
How did Elizabethans try to show off their wealth? (5 ways)
Through the houses they had built, the food they ate, what they drain, the white made up faces of women (to show that they did not have to work outside ad get a tanned face) and the size of the ruff that they wore around their necks.
How many followers did Essex have with him on his march to London?
200.
Where was Upper Silesia?
In South Poland, close to the German/Polish border.
What was Laissez-Faire?
A widely held belief at the start of the industrial period that it was not the job of government to try to improve public health.
What was John of Aderne famous for?
Being a fantastic English surgeon, the manual of surgery he wrote called ‘Practica,’ using opium and henbane to dull pain in surgery and forming the Guild of Surgeons in London in 1368.
What was not allowed in the Rhineland and what was this called?
No troops, weapons or fortifications. This is called being demilitarised.
When was the ‘Regnans in Excelsis’ issued and by who?
1570 by Pope Pious V.
What were mandates?
Germany’s colonies in Africa which, as part of the Treaty of Versailles, were in the control of the League of Nations (especially Britain and France).
Who was Roosevelt (FDR)?
President of America for most of the 1930s.
What was the book published by Vesalius called?
The Fabric of the Human Body.
Who were the Big 3?
Clemenceau of France, Lloyd George of Britain, WIlson of the USA.
Why was Galen so popular with the Christian church?
He taught his students that the human body fitted together in a well designed whole. This suggested that a greater being (God) had designed the human body. That’s why Christians liked him.
What was appeasement?
A British policy of giving Hitler a little of what he wanted in order to prevent a war.
-When did John Snow discover the link between cholera and dirty water?
1854.
What were Puritans?
Extreme Protestants who were unable to compromise and accept alternative religions and churches.
Who was Lord Lytton?
The British politician in charge of the Commission of Inquiry put together by the League to investigate events in Manchuria?
Who was The Duke of Medina-Sidonia?
He was appointed by Philip II as commander of the Spanish Armada.