Medicine Dates And Medicines

Question 1

In what year was the Black Death?

Answer 1

1348

Question 2

When was the renaissance period?

Answer 2

1500-1700

Question 3

Who was Andreas Vesalius?

Answer 3

He challenged the old ideas of Galen and proved the old theories wrong

Question 4

How did medieval society think disease was spread?

Answer 4

Miasma
Punishment from god
Bad smelling people and homes

Question 5

How did the royal society encourage new ideas?

Answer 5

Used a new printing press to publish their ideas

They met weekly to discuss medicine and botany

Question 6

What book did Vesalius write?

Answer 6

De humani corporis fabrica

Question 7

What did william Harvey do?

Answer 7

He worked out that the heart acted like a pump and pumps blood around the body.
He also found out that cables allowed the blood to flow in a one way system.

Question 8

When was the great plague?

Answer 8

1665

Question 9

What did Jenner do?

Answer 9

He created a vaccination to cure smallpox

Question 10

When did Edward jenner publish his ideas

Answer 10

1798

Question 11

What was pasteurs germ theory?

Answer 11

He thought that germs spread through the air and used a swan neck flask to see all of the germs that got caught in the neck

Question 12

What did Bacteria did Robert Koch find?

Answer 12

1882- tb
1883-cholera
1884- tetanus

Question 13

What were the first anaesthetics used?

Answer 13

1799- laughing gas
1846- ether
1847-chloroform

Question 14

What is the black period?

Answer 14

There was higher death rates because people were doing more complex surgeries

Question 15

What did Joseph lister do?

Answer 15

He created the first antiseptic for surgery the carbolic acid spray
1867

Question 16

When were all medical instruments steam sterilised l?

Answer 16

1887

Question 17

When were rubber gloves invented?

Answer 17

1897

Question 18

When was the cholera epidemic?

Answer 18

1854

Question 19

Who found out how cholera was spreading

Answer 19

Jon snow

Question 20

When was the public health act?

Answer 20

1875

Question 21

Who discovered DNA

Answer 21

Rosalind franklin

Question 22

Ow has the fight against lung cancer been developed?

Answer 22

They use X rays to find any white grey masses

They use Ct scans to see a more detailed x ray

Question 23

How did the government help improve health and medicine?

Answer 23

In 1948 the NHS was created

They opened more hospitals and gave gps better training and make appointments more efficient

Question 24

How did Alexander Fleming find penicillin

Answer 24

He found that the mould on a Petri dish had killed all the bacteria around it

Question 25

What did Florey and chain do?

Answer 25

They found a way of purifying penicillin and they tested it on someone and it worked. The us government saw the potential i it and mass produced it