Treatment

Question 1

What Were Some Of The Vaccines Developed In The 1800s?

Answer 1

Typhoid (1882)
Tetanus (1884)
Dysentery (1898)

Question 2

What Were The Four Humours?
Who Developed The Theory?

Answer 2

Yellow Bile
Black Bile
Blood
Phlegm

Question 3

What Was The Theory Of Opposites?
Who Developed The Theory?

Answer 3

Balancing The Four Humours Cured Illness
Galen

Question 4

How Has Science And Technology Improved Treatment In Modern Britain?

Answer 4

More Drugs Developed
Vaccines
Pharmacy Companies
Treatment Of Genetic Diseases

Question 5

What Technology Had Been Developed By The 1800s To Find Cures For Disease?

Answer 5

Stethoscopes
Thermometer
X-rays
Microscopes

Question 6

When Was Asprin Developed?
What Is Asprin Made Of?

Answer 6

1890s
Developed From Willow Bark

Question 7

How Did Industrialisation In The 1800s Improve Treatment?

Answer 7

Medicine And Drugs Could Be Mass Produced

Question 8

Who/What Could Be Used To Treat Disease In The Medieval Period?

Answer 8

Apothecary
Wise-Woman
Physician
Monks

Question 9

What Treatments Had Been Developed By The Renaissance?

Answer 9

Citrus Fruit To Cure Scurvy
Self Help Medicine Books:
The Complete Herbal 1653

Question 10

What Was Quack Medicine?

Answer 10

Fake Medicine Advertised To Cure All Illnesses
Expensive
E.g. Daffys Elixir

Question 11

Who Discovered Germ Theory?
When?

Answer 11

Louis Pasteur
1861

Question 12

How Was Germ Theory Developed?

Answer 12

Louis Pasteur Left A Chicken Cholera Vaccine Out Of The Freezer And When He Returned And Used The Left Out Vaccine It Cured The Chicken With Cholera

Question 13

What Did Robert Koch Do?

Answer 13

Discovered The Organism That Caused Anthrax
Developed Ways To Stain Bacteria So It Could Be Photographed
Worked On Louis Pasteurs Work On Vaccines

Question 14

How Did Religion Impact Progression Of Treatment?

Answer 14

Monks Wrote Books On Medical Treatment
Church Controlled Hospitals
Church Developed Hospitals
Promoted Galens Incorrect Theories
Encouraged Prayer As Treatment
Made Disection Of Human Bodies Difficult

Question 15

What Was The Impact Of The Smallpox Vaccine?

Answer 15

Saved Livea
Became Compulsory 1852
Smallpox Eradicated By 1980
Formed Basics Of Immunology
Contributed To Further Vaccine Development

Question 16

How Had Hospitals Changed By The Renaissance?

Answer 16

Some Taken Over By Government, Run By Volunteers
Some Focused More On Treatment
Specialised Hospitals Began To Appear

Question 17

Who Developed The Smallpox Vaccine?
When?

Answer 17

Edward Jenner
Research Published In 1798

Question 18

How Was The Smallpox Vaccine Discovered?

Answer 18

Link Made Beetween Cowpox And Milkmaids Being Immune To Smallpox, Jenner Used Small Doses Of Cowpox Pus Rubbed In Wounds To Immunise People

Question 19

What Were Some Of The Regressions In Modern Medicine?

Answer 19

Drugs Not Properly Tested E.g Thalidomide
Overuse Of Antibiotics Creating Superbugs E.g MRSA
Alternative Medicine E.g Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy
New Diseases E.g AIDS 1982

Question 20

How Could Disease Be Treated In The Medieval Period?

Answer 20

Bleeding
Prayer
Fasting
Balancing The 4 Humours

Question 21

What Was Believed To Cause Illness In The Medieval Period?

Answer 21

Four Humours
God
Astrology
Miasma (Bad Smells)

Question 22

How Were Antibiotics Developed?

Answer 22

Developed By Alexander Flemming 1928
Flemmings Work Developed By Florey And Chain
Used In WW2 To Treat Infection
Funded By The Government
More Antibiotics Made Since

Question 23

How Have Hospitals Developed In Modern Britain?

Answer 23

NHS (Aneurin Bevan) Since 1948
Better Trained Staff
Better Equipment

Question 24

How Did War Improve Understanding Of Treatment?

Answer 24

Shell Shock Increased Understanding Of Mental Health

Question 25

What Was The Purpose Of Medieval Hospitals?
What Did They Do?

Answer 25

‘Care Not Cure’
Herbal Remedies And Prayer
Turned Away Contagiously Ill People

Question 26

What Are Magic Bullets?

Answer 26

Medicine That Targeted Specific Orgainisms In The Body To Treat Illness
E.g Salvarsan 606 Treated Syphilis