18th 19th Century Medicine

Question 1

Who discovered the small pox vaccine?

Answer 1

Edward Jenner

Question 2

What disease preventing you from getting small pox?

Answer 2

Cow Pox

Question 3

Who discovered Germ Theory?

Answer 3

Louis Pasteur

Question 4

When did he discover Germ Theory?

Answer 4

1861

Question 5

Who discovered which germs cause which diseases?

Answer 5

Robert Koch

Question 6

Who discovered that Cholera was in the water?

Answer 6

John Snow

Question 7

Name an anesthetic

Answer 7

Chloroform

Question 8

Who famously used chloroform in child birth?

Answer 8

Queen Victoria

Question 9

Who discovered carbolic acid was an antiseptic?

Answer 9

Joseph Lister

Question 10

When was the first public health act?

Answer 10

1848

Question 11

When was the second public health act?

Answer 11

1875

Question 12

What was the difference between the two public health acts?

Answer 12

It was complusorary

Question 13

When did Jenner publish his findings?

Answer 13

1798

Question 14

When had Napoleon vaccinated his entire army for smallpox?

Answer 14

1805

Question 15

When was the Royal Jennerian Society set up and what did it set out to do?

Answer 15

1803 to promote the smallpox vaccine

Question 16

When was the smallpox vaccine made compulsory?

Answer 16

1852

Question 17

When did they strictly enforce the compulsory smallpox vaccine?

Answer 17

1872

Question 18

When was smallpox eradicated?

Answer 18

1979

Question 19

What experiment did Pasteur use to prove Germ Theory?

Answer 19

Swan Neck Flask

Question 20

Which outbreak could Pasteur not prove with Germ Theory?

Answer 20

1875 Cholera Outbreak

Question 21

Which microbe did Koch identify in 1876?

Answer 21

Anthrax

Question 22

When did John Snow discover that cholera was spread in the water?

Answer 22

1854

Question 23

Why did the government not believe John Snow?

Answer 23

Germ Theory had not been discovered yet so there was no scientific theory for his work

Question 24

What is the Great Stink?

Answer 24

Hot summer of 1858 dried up the Thames causing London to small, especially outside the House of Parliament

Question 25

Which doctor spread the idea to make people was their hands?

Answer 25

Semmelweis

Question 26

What did Edwin Chadwick’s report find?

Answer 26

That life expectancy in the towns was less than life expectancy in the countryside. He recommended many of the things that were put in place by the Public Health Act

Question 27

How long was the sewer system that Bazalgette designed in London?

Answer 27

1,300 miles

Question 28

Which was did Florence Nightingale help in?

Answer 28

Crimean

Question 29

How did Florence Nightingale improve hospitals?

Answer 29

Ventilation, Cleaned Floors, Changed bedding, organised beds

Question 30

Which two books did Florence Nightingale write?

Answer 30

Notes on Hospitals, Notes on Nursing