Modern Medicine

Question 1

Name 3 modern ideas about treatment.

Answer 1

Antibiotics

Chemical drugs

Blood transfusions

Question 2

Name 3 modern ideas about prevention

Answer 2

NHS

Knowledge

Research vaccines

Question 3

Name 2 modern ideas about causes

Answer 3

DNA

Germs

Question 4

When did Fleming discover penicillin?

Answer 4

1928

Question 5

When was the first magic bullet created?

Answer 5

1909 - The Salvarsan 606

Question 6

When was the NHS introduced?

Answer 6

1948

Question 7

When did the Human Genome Project begin?

Answer 7

1990

Question 8

When was the electron microscope invented?

Answer 8

1931

Question 9

What year did Watson and Crick discover DNA structure?

Answer 9

1953

Question 10

How did the modern government try to prevent lung cancer?

Answer 10

Advertising for cigarettes/tobacco is banned.

Tax on tobacco regularly raised.

Shops cannot publicly display tobacco products.

All packaging must display the dangers of smoking.

Question 11

What are magic bullets?

Answer 11

Synthetic antibodies that will only attack specific microbes.