Medicine Through Time

Question 1

What were the causes of disease

1200-1500

Answer 1

Church

Astrology

4 Humours

Miasma

Question 2

Treatment

1200-1500

Answer 2

Prayer

Humoural treatments

Fasting

Bathing

Question 3

Prevention

1200-1500

Answer 3

Pray!

Basic hygiene

Carry posy 💐

Question 4

Who cares for the sick ?

Answer 4

Physician

Apothecary

Surgeon

Question 5

When was the Black Death ?

Answer 5

1348 -50

Question 6

What is the bubonic plague ?

Answer 6

Spread by fleas on rats

Question 7

What’s the pneumonic plague ?

Answer 7

Spread by coughing

Question 8

Who is Hippocrates ?

Answer 8

Greek physician came up with the 4 Humours

Question 9

Who is Galen ?

Answer 9

Roman physician who wrote about the basis of medical understanding

Question 10

Physician?

Answer 10

University educated who practices medicine

Question 11

Apothecary?

Answer 11

Mixed herbal remedies

Question 12

When was the Renaissance ?

Answer 12

1500-1700

Question 13

What’s the causes in 1500-1700

Answer 13

4 humours
Miasma
Church had less control

Question 14

Treatments in the renaissance period?

Answer 14

Transference
Herbal remedies
Chemical cures

Question 15

Prevention in the renaissance?

Answer 15

Cleanliness

Moderation

Reduce miasma

Question 16

When was the great plague?

Answer 16

1665

Question 17

How many people died in the great plague ?

Answer 17

65,000

Question 18

Prevention for the great plague?

Answer 18

Quarantine

Prayer

Pomander

Plague doctors

Public meetings stoped

Question 19

Who’s Thomas Sydenham ?

Answer 19

Observed the patients symptoms not the disease

Question 20

Versalius

Answer 20

Found errors in Galen’s work and made the book ‘Fabric of the human body’

Question 21

William Harvey ?

Answer 21

Discovered how blood circulated round the body

Question 22

Anatomy ?

Answer 22

The human body

Question 23

Quarantine ?

Answer 23

Isolate ill people

Question 24

Who’s Louis Pasteur ?

Answer 24

Developed the germ theory

Observed that microbes in the air cause liquids to rot

Question 25

Who’s Robert Koch ?

Answer 25

Identified that different microbes cause different disease

Question 26

Who is Florence nightingale?

Answer 26

Nurse in the Crimean war who made changes to hospitals and the treatment of soldiers

Question 27

What were the 3 main problems in surgery?

Answer 27

Pain - chloroform Infection - carbolic spray Blood loss

Question 28

Who’s Edward Jenner ?

Answer 28

Developed the vaccination to protect us against small pox

Question 29

What year was the public health act ?

Answer 29

1848

Question 30

What year did they make vaccines for small pox compulsory?

Answer 30

1852

Question 31

What year was the second public health act and what did it do ?

Answer 31

1875 Government took more action to living conditions

Question 32

When did cholera arrive ?

Answer 32

1831 - 54

Question 33

Who’s John Snow ?

Answer 33

Worked out cholera was caused by dirty water

Question 34

What was the name of the pump that cholera was found at ?

Answer 34

Broad St

Question 35

James Simpson ?

Answer 35

Chloroform

Question 36

Joseph lister

Answer 36

Carbolic avid

Question 37

Spontaneous generation ?

Answer 37

Cause of decay

Question 38

In he 21st century what cause of disease?

Answer 38

Technology Genetics Smoking Poor diet

Question 39

Alexander Fleming ?

Answer 39

Discovered penicillin

Question 40

Florey and chain ?

Answer 40

Developed penicillin and joined with the us to make more

Question 41

2nd most common cancer ?

Answer 41

Lung

Question 42

Watson and crick ?

Answer 42

Structure of DNA

Question 43

What a magic bullet ?

Answer 43

Kills disease but doesn’t effect the rest of the body

Question 44

Antibiotic?

Answer 44

Stop or destroys growth of bacteria