Knowledge Test: Treatment and Causes of Illness

Question 1

What was used to treat pain in the mid 19th Century?

Answer 1

Opium, alcohol and knocking someone out

Question 2

What type of surgeon was best in the mid-19th Century?

Answer 2

A quick one

Question 3

In the mid-19th Century, medicine was still based on the findings of which Greek and Roman doctors?

Answer 3

Hippocrates and Galen

Question 4

What was the miasma theory?

Answer 4

Germs were caused by poisonous vapours (bad air)

Question 5

Who discovered that a small dose of cowpox protected you from smallpox?

Answer 5

Edward Jenner

Question 6

Who is the father of microbiology?

Answer 6

Pasteur

Question 7

Which animal did Pasteur first experiment on?

Answer 7

Silkworms

Question 8

Pasteur and Koch were spurred by the competition of which war?

Answer 8

Franco-Prussian war

Question 9

Koch was the first to use which technique?

Answer 9

Stain and grow bacteria in a petri dish

Question 10

In 1881, Pasteur claimed he had a vaccination for which disease?

Answer 10

Anthrax

Question 11

Ehrlich worked for who?

Answer 11

Koch

Question 12

Ehrlich and Behring found chemical vaccines for what?

Answer 12

Syphilis - Salvarson 606

Question 13

What did Domagk discover?

Answer 13

The 2nd magic bullet - Prontosil

Question 14

What type of drug is penicillin?

Answer 14

Antibiotic

Question 15

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer 15

Fleming - although Sanderson and Lister had noted it beforehand

Question 16

Who developed penicillin?

Answer 16

Florey and Chain

Question 17

How much did the US government give to drug companies in WWII to mass produce penicillin?

Answer 17

$80 million