The Industrial Revolution

Question 1

What did Florence Nightingale do to improve nursing?

Answer 1

• wrote ‘Notes on Nursing’ which was the standard textbook for generations of nurses
• public raised £44,000 for her to train nurses
• set up Nightingale School of Nursing

Question 2

What Act was passed in 1919?

Answer 2

Registration of Nurses Act

Question 3

What did the Registration of Nurses Act do?

Answer 3

Made training compulsory for nurses

Question 4

How many trained nurses were in Britain by 1900?

Answer 4

64,000

Question 5

1820-1910

Answer 5

Florence Nightingale

Question 6

1805-1881

Answer 6

Mary Seacole

Question 7

1854-1856

Answer 7

Crimean War

Question 8

1857

Answer 8

Louis Pasteur employed to find the explantation for souring if sugar beet used in fermenting alcohol.

Question 9

How did Pasteur prove there were germs in the air?

Answer 9

Sterilised water and kept it in a flask so that airborne particles couldn’t enter.

Question 10

1875

Answer 10

Koch identifies anthrax spores

Question 11

1882

Answer 11

Koch identifies bacteria that causes tuberculosis.

Question 12

1883

Answer 12

Koch identifies bacteria that causes cholera.

Question 13

1878

Answer 13

Koch identifies bacteria that causes septicaemia.

Question 14

1877

Answer 14

Pasteur comes out of retirement to find new microbes and combat them. His rival is Robert Koch.

Question 15

How did Charles Chamberland make chickens immune to cholera?

Answer 15

He left the cholera when he went on holiday and injected the chickens when he returned. The chickens survived. The chickens were injected again with newly cultured cholera but again they survived. They had been made immune by the weakened cholera.

Question 16

Who did Charles Chamberland work for?

Answer 16

Louis Pasteur

Question 17

1889

Answer 17

Paul Ehrlich started finding chemicals that could act as synthetic antibodies.