Industrial

Question 1

What is John Snow most known for?

Answer 1

His work on the cholera epidemic

Question 2

What is Edwin Chadwick most known for?

Answer 2

His work on sanitation and public health

Question 3

What is Joseph Bazalgette most known for?

Answer 3

For creating a more effective sewer system after ‘The Great Stink’

Question 4

What is Louis Pasteur most known for?

Answer 4

The Germ Theory, vaccinations and pasteurisation.

Question 5

What is Robert Koch most known for?

Answer 5

Further developing Pasteur’s ideas, his work on anthrax and tuberculosis.

Question 6

What was Joseph Lister’s main contribution?

Answer 6

Carbolic Acid, the antiseptic.

Question 7

What is James Simpson famous for?

Answer 7

Discovering that chloroform can be used as anaesthetic. He did this by sniffing drugs and chemicals.

Question 8

Florence Nightingale’s contributed to medicine by…

Answer 8

Wrote 2 books : Notes on Nursing & Notes on Hospitals

Went to the crimean war and decreased the death rate from 40% - 2% by introducing sanitary and hygiene.