MEDICINE - 18th -19th Century

Question 1

What illnesses did Koch Discover?

Answer 1

Anthrax - 1876
Septicaemia - 1878
Tuberculosis - 1882

Question 2

What technology did both Pasteur and Koch use in their discoveries?

Answer 2

Microscopes

Question 3

What is spontaneous generation?

Answer 3

The idea that microbes were caused from decaying matter.

Question 4

What influential factor did Pasteur have over Koch

Answer 4

Pasteur debunked spontaneous generation.

Pasteur completely changed how disease was understood by the introduction of Germ Theory.

Question 5

How did Koch’s further develop Pasteur’s ideas?

Answer 5

• Identified different microbes for different diseases.

- Dyed bacteria to view under a microscope.

Question 6

Microbe that caused TB discovered by Robert Koch

Answer 6

1882

Question 7

In which part of London did Snow have to investigate a cholera death outside of the Soho area?

Answer 7

Hampstead

Question 8

In 1851 Snow had advised Queen Victoria to give birth to which child using chloroform?

Answer 8

Leopold

This enhanced Snow’s reputation as an experienced physician across London.

Question 9

What year did Snow present his findings to the House of Commons Committee?

Answer 9

1855

This was an important link Snow had to persuade the Government to take action.

Question 10

The Great Stink of 1858 was caused by how many millions of cubic feet of human effluent entering the Thames every day?

Answer 10

12

Mainly caused by the overcrowding of London and the invention of flushing toilets.

Question 11

What was Joseph Bazalgette’s official title?

How much money did the Government give him to construct the new sewage system?

Answer 11

Civil Engineer

3 million

Question 12

What year was the entire project completed?

Answer 12

1875