factors- chance

Question 1

medieval

black death- how was popping buboes thought to help, and how did it actually help

Answer 1

buboes were popped to release evil spirits

actually released some of the infection

Question 2

medieval
balds leechbook- what was a recipe used that microbiologists found is as effective as modern medicibne for treating superbug MRSA

Answer 2

using crop leek and garlic mixed with bullock’s gall and wine and applied with a feather

Question 3

medieval

how did barberts surgeons get rid of ‘‘tooth worms’’ that were supposedly causing tooth ache/ holes

Answer 3

stuck hot wire into cavities to kill ‘‘tooth worm’’ making the holes

Question 4

medieval

why was barbers surgeons sticking hot rods in teeth effective

Answer 4

killed the nerve, so killing the pain

Question 5

early modern

what was edward jenner lucky to overhear, which helped him develop his ideas

Answer 5

overheard milkmaids chatting saying that milkmaids with cowpox never got smallpox

Question 6

early modern
Ambroise pare ran out of cauterisation oil so had to make his own, what did this consist of, and what were the advantages

Answer 6

egg yolk, turpentine and rose oil

was less painful

Question 7

19th century

what did simpson dod when he invited his friends round for dinner

Answer 7

experimented with different chemicals as anesthetics

Question 8

19th century

why did Simpson and his friends pass out

Answer 8

he had poured chloroform into glasses- he had accidentally found a gaseous anaesthetic

Question 9

19th century

whop was chicken cholera a problem for in 1879

Answer 9

french farmers

Question 10

19th century

what happened after pasteur isolated the germ causing cholera and tried to weaken it

Answer 10

his team injected chicken with various forms of it

Question 11

19th century

how was luck involved in pasteurs solution for chicken cholera immunisation

Answer 11

research was abandoned and some chicken cholera solution left exposed to air in summer
pasteurs assistant chamberland injected chicken wth this sokution and chicken became immunised
exposure to air weakened germ

Question 12

20th century

when was alexander fleming sent to study wounded soldiers

Answer 12

WW2

Question 13

20th century

who discovered penicillen

Answer 13

alexander fleming

Question 14

20th century

how was luck involved in Alexander flemings penicllin discovery

Answer 14

spores from mouldy bread in lab landed on petri dish and killed staphylococci germ
mould was penicllin- today called antibiotic