medicine booklet 2

Question 1

who opened the first foundling hospital for abandoned children in 1741 ?

Answer 1

thomas coram

Question 2

what kind of patients did the voluntary hospital of Lock treat ?

Answer 2

STD patients

Question 3

how many voluntary hospitals opened between 1720 and 1750

Answer 3

14

Question 4

how many patients were being treated each year in London hospitals by 1800

Answer 4

20,000

Question 5

true or false… the main difference between medieval and early modern hospitals was that they became more specialised and had more proffesional doctors and surgeons

Answer 5

trueeee

Question 6

what disease is caused by the variola virus ?

Answer 6

smallpox

Question 7

in the smallpox epidemics of 1796 and 1837-40 a combined number of how many people died ?

Answer 7

77,000

Question 8

which monarch died of smallpox in 1694?

Answer 8

queen mary ll

Question 9

who discovered innoculation - where a patient is given a mild form of smallpox disease

Answer 9

Lady mary montago

Question 10

true or false… vaccination is safer than innoculation because you dont actually give the patient the dangerous disease but a safer version of the virus

Answer 10

true

Question 11

edward jenner heard milkmades say that if you have cowpox then you cant catch smallpox. What 9 year old boy did he test this theory on ?

Answer 11

James phipps

Question 12

what was the name of the book Jenner published in 1798

Answer 12

an inquiry into the causes and effects of variolae vaccinea or cow pox

Question 13

how much money was jenner awarded by the government in 1802 and 1807 combined, to continue his work into vaccinations

Answer 13

30,000

Question 14

which groups didnt like vaccinations

Answer 14

doctors,the church and parents

Question 15

in what year did smallpox vaccinations become compulsory

Answer 15

1853

Question 16

in what year was the anti vaccination league set up to campaign against vaccinations

Answer 16

1866

Question 17

how much money was edward jenner awarded in 1802 by the government

Answer 17

£10,000

Question 18

how much money was edward jenner awarded in 1807 by the government

Answer 18

£20,000

Question 19

how much money were doctors payed to innoculate people

Answer 19

£20

Question 20

in what year were vaccinations made free ?

Answer 20

1840

Question 21

in what year did the government start to fine parents who were against vaccination

Answer 21

1871

Question 22

in what year did the government allow parents to refuse vaccination, after the death rate had fallen

Answer 22

1887