Chance

Question 1

Edward Jenner

Early Modern

Answer 1

Lucky to overhear milkmaids saying if they had cowpox they didn’t get small pox

Injected James Philips with cowpox pus and when recovered smallpox pus

Question 2

The greats plague

Early modern

Answer 2

Inadvertently did things to stop contagion like banning public entertainment

Rubbish and animals removed from streets giving rats less food

Fires lit in streets to remove miasma when it actually scared away rats

Question 3

Simpson and chloroform

19th century

Answer 3

He experimented with different chemicals as anaesthetics

Poured chloroform into some of his friends glasses and they all passed out accidentally finding gaseous anaesthetic

Question 4

Fleming

20th century

Answer 4

Looking for something that would kill microbes that cause infection during ww1

Was investigating and left to go on holiday leaving a sandwich, mouldy bread got into the Petri dish killing the germ

The mould was penicillin