Individuals in Medicine - C1000 - 2000

Question 1

What were the 4 humours ?

Answer 1

Black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm

Question 2

When was the Coventry clean up ?

Answer 2

1421

Question 3

What was Arderne’s surgery success rate ?

Answer 3

50%

Question 4

What book did Arderne write ?

Answer 4

“A practice for surgery” - 1350

Question 5

What did Rhazes discover ?

Answer 5

Allergies and fevers were natural healing methods

Question 6

What book did Rhazes write ?

Answer 6

“El Hawi” + 200 books

Question 7

What book did Avicenna write ?

Answer 7

“Canon of medicine”

Question 8

What anaesthetic did Avicenna use ?

Answer 8

Cannabis and opium

Question 9

What did Ibn al-Nafis discover ?

Answer 9

Blood circulated through the heart - disproved Galen

Question 10

When did John Hunter remove an aneurysm ?

Answer 10

1785

Question 11

What was John Hunter’s nickname ?

Answer 11

“Father of scientific surgery”

Question 12

What book did John Hunter write ?

Answer 12

“Natural history of teeth”

Question 13

Who did John Hunter train ?

Answer 13

Edward Jenner

Question 14

What did Pare use instead of oil for cauterisation ?

Answer 14

Egg yolk, rose oil and turpentine - less painful

Question 15

What did Pare write ?

Answer 15

“Les Oeuvres” - 1575

Question 16

Who did Jenner test his theory on ?

Answer 16

James Phipps

Question 17

When did Jenner write “ An inquiry into the cause of Cow-pox” ?

Answer 17

1798

Question 18

How much was Jenner Given in 1802 ?

Answer 18

£10,000 for research

Question 19

When were vaccines made compulsory ?

Answer 19

1853

Question 20

What book did William Harvey write ?

Answer 20

“On the motion of the heart”

Question 21

What did William Harvey discover ?

Answer 21

Blood pumped around the body in a circular motion

Question 22

How long after William Harvey’s work were capillaries discovered ?

Answer 22

60 years later

Question 23

Why was Vesalius different ?

Answer 23

Actually dissecting bodies and observing

Question 24

What was grave robbing called ?

Answer 24

Burking

Question 25

What book did Vesalius write ?

Answer 25

"Fabric of the human body"

Question 26

What did Pasteur theorise ?

Answer 26

Micro-organisms caused disease

Question 27

When was Germ Theory published ?

Answer 27

1861

Question 28

What did Pasteur invent to preserve liquids ?

Answer 28

Pasteurisation

Question 29

What vaccine did Pasteur create ?

Answer 29

Rabies vaccine

Question 30

What did Koch do ?

Answer 30

Linked germs to specific diseases

Question 31

When did Koch identify the bacteria causing TB ?

Answer 31

1882

Question 32

When did Ehrlich make salvarsan 606 ?

Answer 32

1910

Question 33

What were these new pills called ?

Answer 33

magic bullets

Question 34

What did Lister do ?

Answer 34

Used carbolic acid to sterilise

Question 35

What did Lister make death rates fall by ?

Answer 35

46% - 15% in 3 years

Question 36

When did Lister create the machine to spray carbolic acid ?

Answer 36

1871

Question 37

What did James Simpson use ?

Answer 37

Chloroform to reduce pain

Question 38

When did John Snow publish his book about cholera ?

Answer 38

1849

Question 39

How did John Snow prove it was caused by dirty water ?

Answer 39

Removed the pump handle of the pump where most people were dying - Less deaths

Question 40

What Acts did John Snow influence ?

Answer 40

Public health acts of 1875 - Sanitary act of 1866

Question 41

What did Booth and Rowntree's reports discover ?

Answer 41

31% of people lived below the poverty line

Question 42

What did the Booth an Rowntree reports lead to ?

Answer 42

Liberal reforms 1906 - 1918

Question 43

How did Fleming discover penicillin ?

Answer 43

Left the bacteria exposed to mouldy bread when on holiday - The spores from the mould killed the bacteria

Question 44

Why did Fleming fail to take advantage of penicillin ?

Answer 44

Couldn't inject it into the blood stream

Question 45

Who did Florey and Chain experiment on to prove the works of penicillin ?

Answer 45

A policeman who survived until he ran out of penicillin

Question 46

How many soldiers were treated with penicillin ?

Answer 46

250,000 - 15% would've died without

Question 47

What were the 5 giants of poverty on the Beveridge report ?

Answer 47

Disease, Want, Ignorance, Idleness, Poor living conditions

Question 48

What did the Beveridge report claim ?

Answer 48

We need government support "from cradle to grave"

Question 49

How many copies did the Beveridge report sell ?

Answer 49

100,000

Question 50

What did Landsteiner discover ?

Answer 50

Blood types to match donors

Question 51

How long could blood last with an anti-coagulant ?

Answer 51

28 days

Question 52

How many blood donors were there in WW2 ?

Answer 52

700,000

Question 53

How many soldiers received a skin graft treatment ?

Answer 53

5,000

Question 54

Who invented skin grafting ?

Answer 54

Harold Gillies