Medicine - Industrial Peg Test

Question 1

In what year did Jenner develop the smallpox vaccine?

Answer 1

1790s

Question 2

What method of preventing disease did vaccination improve upon?

Answer 2

Innoculation

Question 3

What disease did Jenner inject James Phipps with to prevent him from getting smallpox?

Answer 3

Cowpox

Question 4

How many more experiments did he carry out?

Answer 4

23

Question 5

Give 2 reasons he faced opposition?

Answer 5

He couldn’t explain it and doctors were making money from innoculations

Question 6

In what year did the British government make vaccinations compulsory?

Answer 6

1850s

Question 7

Which theory did the germ theory disprove in 1861?

Answer 7

Spontaneous generation

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

1870s

Question 10

Name 3 germs Koch discovered

Answer 10

Cholera
Anthrax
TB

Question 11

Name 3 vaccines Pasteur developed

Answer 11

Chicken cholera
Anthrax
Rabies

Question 12

In what year did Nightingale go out to the Crimea War?

Answer 12

1850s

Question 13

What changes did she make to the wards in Crimea?

Answer 13

1 man per bed and air circulation

Question 14

What were the names of her two books that turned nursing into a profession?

Answer 14

Notes on Nursing

Notes on Hospitals

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 ion the period?

Answer 16

Laisse fiar

Question 17

In what year did Cholera hit England?

Answer 17

1830s

Question 18

Who wrote the report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Classes?

Answer 18

Chadwick

Question 19

When was the 1st Public Health Act and what was wrong with it?

Answer 19

1840s and wasn’t enforced

Question 20

What did the 1st Public Heath 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 1850s

Question 22

Who built London’s sewer system?

Answer 22

Bazelgette

Question 23

When was the great stink?

Answer 23

1850s

Question 24

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

Answer 24

1860s

Question 25

When was the 2nd Public Health Act passed and how was it different?

Answer 25

1870s and enforced