Industrial medicine

Question 1

What was the death rate of smallpox (%)?

Answer 1

35%

Question 2

In what year did the smallpox vaccination become compulsory?

Answer 2

1852

Question 3

Who’s leg did Joseph Lister mend using the antiseptic approach and in what year?

Answer 3

Jamie Greenless - 1865

Question 4

Name of Chadwick’s report?

Answer 4

Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Populations

Question 5

Year of first public health act?

Answer 5

1848

Question 6

Who refused to publish Edward Jenner’s ideas about vaccination?

Answer 6

the Royal Society

Question 7

In what year did Jenner publish vaccination?

Answer 7

1798

Question 8

What did Jenner do in 1797?

Answer 8

He investigated why milkmaids did not catch smallpox after having caught cowpox

Question 9

What is the name of the boy who Jenner experimented on?

Answer 9

James Phipps

Question 10

In what year did Queen Victoria use chloroform during her childbirth?

Answer 10

1853 (it was her 8th birth)

Question 11

Who died from an overdose of anesthetics, in what year and why?

Answer 11

Hannah Greener, 1848, during an operation to remove a toenail

Question 12

Year of Chadwick’s report?

Answer 12

1842

Question 13

Year that works on sewerage system begins?

Answer 13

1858

Question 14

year of 2nd public health act?

Answer 14

1875

Question 15

How much did the sewer system cost?

Answer 15

£3 million

Question 16

How many bricks were used in the sewer system?

Answer 16

318 millions

Question 17

How many miles was the sewer system?

Answer 17

83 miles

Question 18

Who designed the sewer system?

Answer 18

Joseph Bazalgette

Question 19

When did John Snow make his discovery?

Answer 19

1854

Question 20

In what year did Joseph Lister invent a microscope which magnified by … times?

Answer 20

1830 by 1000 times

Question 21

When was Germ theory published?

Answer 21

in 1861

Question 22

Why was Pasteur asked by a brewery company and what factor is this an example of?

Answer 22

To investigate why beer was going off.

Chance

Question 23

What was the idea of germ theory?

Answer 23

Microbes already exist in the air and cause matter to decay

Question 24

How many generations of mice did Koch experiment on when investigative the bacteria which caused anthrax?

Answer 24

20

Question 25

In what year was Nitrous oxide (‘laughing gas’) discovered?

Answer 25

1799

Question 26

In what year was the first public demonstration of ether?

Answer 26

1846

Question 27

In what years was Chloroform discovered?

Answer 27

1847

Question 28

Who discovered chloroform?

Answer 28

James Simpson

Question 29

What was a drawback to chloroform?

Answer 29

It affected the heart

Question 30

Who discovered ‘laughing gas’?

Answer 30

Humphry Davy

Question 31

What was a drawback of ether?

Answer 31

It was an irritant and it was explosive

Question 32

What did Robert Koch use Germ theory to do?

Answer 32

investigate the specific microbes that caused certai diseases

Question 33

When was the Franco-Prussian war?

Answer 33

1871

Question 34

In what year did Pasteur’s lab close for the summer which led to some chicken cholera bacteria being weakened?

Answer 34

1879

Question 35

What was the idea of spontaneous generation?

Answer 35

Tiny microbes are the result of decaying matter and bad smell