Exploring Medicine Chapters 11-14

Question 1

Lous Pasteur showed that fermentation is caused by

Answer 1

yeasts that are alive

Question 2

Did Louis Pasteur reject the theory of evolution?

Answer 2

yes

Question 3

Lousi Pasteur proved that spontaneous generation __

Answer 3

never occurs

Question 4

Spontaneous generation is the belief that microscopic life can

Answer 4

come into existence out of non-living matter

Question 5

How did Lous Pasteur prepare his mind each morning?

Answer 5

By reading the Bible and praying

Question 6

Did some doctors encourage infection to develop?

Answer 6

yes

Question 7

A compound fracture is one in which

Answer 7

a broken bone cuts through the flesh

Question 8

Louis Pasteur claimed that ___ caused disease.

Answer 8

tiny germs

Question 9

Carbolic acid is __

Answer 9

very weak

Question 10

What does antiseptic mean?

Answer 10

anti - against

septic - to make rotten

Question 11

Joseph Lister became what three things?

Answer 11

the first physician to belong to the House of Lords

president of the Royal Society

physician to the Queen

Question 12

What did Robert Koch dream of being?

Answer 12

explorer

Question 13

To rid their livestock of anthrax, farmers had to

Answer 13

kill them and burn or bury them

Question 14

Did Robert Koch have a well equipped research laboratory to work on the problem of anthrax?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

Was anthrax cared in spores?

Answer 15

no

Question 16

At the university, Robert Koch proved his ideas by three days of

Answer 16

experiments

Question 17

On the third day of Robert Koch’s demonstration, the professors told their students ___

Answer 17

go and watch the country doctor

Question 18

Robert Koch proved what cause anthrax but could not do what?

Answer 18

find a cure for it

Question 19

Pasteur produced a weakened form of anthrax by

Answer 19

a controlled heating of the deadly anthrax bacteria

Question 20

What did Louis Pasteur learn to do in order to combat the virus?

Answer 20

vaccinate an animal with a weekend bacteria of the same disease

Question 21

hydrophobia is another name for what?

Answer 21

rabies

Question 22

Was Louis Pasteur successful in growing rabies germ in a potato culture?

Answer 22

no

Question 23

Is it true that Louis Pasteur never went to medical school?

Answer 23

yes, he never went to medical school

Question 24

Rossignol described the results of the public test of anthrax vaccination as

Answer 24

a stunning success