Treatment of illness and disease facts, figures & dates

Question 1

Pasteur experimented on milk, vinegar and alcohol (beer and wine) to prove that germs caused disease.

Answer 1

1850s

Question 2

Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation at a competition organised by the French Academy of Science

Answer 2

1860

Question 3

Pasteur published Germ Theory

Answer 3

1861

Question 4

Pasteur silkworm experiments to link mico-organisms to disease in animals.

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

Pasteur published Germ Theory and its Application to Medicine

Answer 5

1878

Question 6

Koch set up a lab and developed a method of staining and identifying microorganisms

Answer 6

1872

Question 7

Koch identified anthrax

Answer 7

1876

Question 8

Koch identified septicaemia

Answer 8

1878

Question 9

Koch develops technique of growing cultures in petri dish

Answer 9

1880

Question 10

Koch identified TB

Answer 10

1882

Question 11

Koch identified cholera

Answer 11

1883

Question 12

Pasteur develops vaccine against chicken cholera

Answer 12

1878

Question 13

Pasteur develops vaccine against anthrax in cows and sheep

Answer 13

1881

Question 14

Pasteur develops vaccine against rabies

Answer 14

1882 (experimented on humans in 1885)

Question 15

Curie discovered polonium and radium

Answer 15

1898

Question 16

Curie Nobel prize for Physics for work on radioactivity

Answer 16

1908

Question 17

Sorbonne built first radium institute for study of radioactivity - to shrink tumours

Answer 17

1910

Question 18

Salvarsan 606 discovered to kill the syphilis germ. ______first used on humans.

Answer 18

1909 ~ 1911

Question 19

Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin mould acts on staphylococcus bacteria. He grew more of the mould and found that it acted against anthrax and diphtheria without harmful side effects.

Answer 19

1928

Question 20

Florey and Chain became interested in Fleming’s findings and in _______assembled a research team to investigate further. In _____ they effectively tested penicillin on mice and in ____ on a human.

Answer 20

1930s ~ 1939 ~ 1940 ~ 1941

Question 21

US government gave $80 million to 4 drug companies to find ways to mass produce penicillin.

Answer 21

1942

Question 22

US government gave $ to mass produce penicllin

Answer 22

$80 million

Question 23

the US army was using 2 million doses of penicillin a month and there was enough to treat all of the casualties at D-Day

Answer 23

By 1945