Medicine Y10 Mock 2.0

Question 1

How many hospitals were set up in the 12th and 13th centuries?

Answer 1

Over 160

Question 2

What did St Mary of bethlehem 1247 specialise in?

Answer 2

“Poor and silly people”

Question 3

What remedies were used in the medival period?

Answer 3

Herbal remedies and prayer

Question 4

What did Cairo hospitals do in 1283?

Answer 4

Gave patients money when they left so they didn’t have to go straight back to work

Question 5

What were some of the most famous Islamic hospitals in the medival period?

Answer 5

Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo

Question 6

How many new hospitals opened between 1720-1750?

Answer 6

14

Question 7

By 1800 how patients did londons hospitals treat?

Answer 7

20,000

Question 8

When did Thomas Coram open the first foundling hospital?

Answer 8

1741

Question 9

Where did Harvey study and work

Answer 9

St Bartholomew’s hospital

Question 10

What did St Luke’s London hospital treat?

Answer 10

Mentally ill patients

Question 11

When did Lister invent a carbolic acid spraying machine?

Answer 11

1871

Question 12

How much did Lister reduce his mortality rates by in his surgery using carbolic acid?

Answer 12

46% to 15% in only three years

Question 13

What did Chamberland invent in 1881?

Answer 13

A steam steriliser for equipment

Question 14

How much did Florence Nightingale reduce the death rate by in hospitals in the Crimean war?

Answer 14

40% to 2%

Question 15

What book did Florence Nightingale write in 1863?

Answer 15

Notes on hospitals

Question 16

When was the NHS set up?

Answer 16

4th of July in 1948

Question 17

When was laser surgery first used instead of scalpels in eye surgery?

Answer 17

1987