History Of Medicine Prevention Of Disease KQ2

Question 1

What were the attempts to prevent the Black Death?

Answer 1

Doctors wore hoods, with a beak stuffed with herbs

Question 2

Medieval examples of prevention of illness

Answer 2

Flagellants whipped themselves
Soothsayers made charms to ward off illness

Question 3

Welsh example of medieval prevention of illnesses

Answer 3

Physicians of Myddfai, used stats to give advice to prevent illness

Question 4

Who was key to treatment in the disease in the 1800s

Answer 4

Edward Jenner

Question 5

what were the main diseases of the 18th and 19th century?

Answer 5

smallpox and inoculation

Question 6

who was key in GERM THEORY in the 18th and 19th century

Answer 6

Pasteur, allowed other vaccines to be developed

Question 7

welsh example, 18th and 19th

Answer 7

In Newport, some parents were prosecuted for refusing to have their children vaccinated.

Question 8

Examples of preventing disease, 20th century

Answer 8

Vaccination programmes run by the WHO helped eliminate diseases: polio, measles, whooping cough

Question 9

why was measles on the rise in the 20th century

Answer 9

so many people had not had the MMR vaccine

Question 10

why did some people not get the MMR vaccine?

Answer 10

discredited medical report that linked autism to the MMR vaccine in 1998