Industrial Revolution Medicine

Question 1

In what year did Jenner develop the Smallpox

vaccination?

Answer 1

1796

Question 2

What method of preventing disease did

vaccination improve upon?

Answer 2

Inoculation

Question 3

What disease did Jenner inject Jame Phipps

with to prevent him from getting Smallpox?

Answer 3

Cowpox

Question 4

How many more experiments did Jenner carry out?

Answer 4

23

Question 5

Give 2 reasons Jenner faced opposition.

Answer 5

Explanation, making money from inoculations.

Question 6

In what year did the British government make

the vaccination compulsory?

Answer 6

1852

Question 7

Which theory did the GT prove wrong in 1861?

Answer 7

Miasma

Question 8

What job did Pasteur do and in which country?

Answer 8

French chemist

Question 9

In what year did Koch prove that specific germs

cause specific diseases?

Answer 9

1875

Question 10

Name 3 germs Koch discovered.

Answer 10

Anthrax, TB, Cholera

Question 11

Name 3 vaccines that Pasteur developed.

Answer 11

Chicken cholera, Anthrax, Rabies

Question 12

In what year did Nightingale go out to the

Crimea?

Answer 12

1854

Question 13

What changes did Nightingale make to the wards in the Crimea?

Answer 13

Ventilation, Hygiene and Wards

Question 14

What were the names of Nightingale 2 books that

turned nursing into a profession?

Answer 14

• Notes on Hospitals

- Notes on Nursing

Question 15

By 1901 there were 68,000 trained nurses and

in 1850 there had been none. True or false?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What attitude did the government have in this

period?

Answer 16

Laissez-faire

Question 17

In what year did Cholera hit England?

Answer 17

1831

Question 18

Who wrote the report on the Sanitary

Conditions of the Labouring Classes?

Answer 18

Chadwick

Question 19

When was the 1st Public Health Act and what

was wrong with it?

Answer 19

1848 and it was not enforced.

Question 20

What did the 1st Public Health Act recommend?

Answer 20

Local board of health

Question 21

Who discovered what was causing cholera in

Broad Street and in what year?

Answer 21

Snow in 1854.

Question 22

Who built London’s sewer system?

Answer 22

Bazelgette

Question 23

When was the Great Stink?

Answer 23

1858

Question 24

In what year were some working class men
given the right to vote?

Answer 24

1867

Question 25

When was the 2nd Public Health Act passed and

how was it different?

Answer 25

1875 and it was enforced.

Question 26

What period of time was industrial medicine?

Answer 26

1700 - 1900