What were the changes and continuities for medicine in the Industrial Period?

Question 1

When did Louis Pasteur publish Germ Theory?

Answer 1

1861

Question 2

In what year and period did James Simpson discover the anaesthetic properties of chloroform?

Answer 2

1847 - industrial

Question 3

When during the Egyptian period was the library at Alexandria opened?

Answer 3

It wasn’t. It was built in the Greek period.

Question 4

What did Edward Jenner discover?

Answer 4

Smallpox vaccination using cowpox

Question 5

What worried the British government during recruitment for the Boer War in 1899?

Answer 5

40 out of every 100 volunteers were unfit for military service.

Question 6

What was Edwin Chadwick’s big discovery?

Answer 6

That high poor rate in some towns resulted from some people being too unwell to work due to poor living conditions.

Question 7

What name is given to the type of doctor who performs operations?

Answer 7

Surgeon

Question 8

What is disease and infection the story of?

Answer 8

The story of what people throughout History believed made them unwell and how they tried to treat illnesses.

Question 9

What are the three themes comprising the History of Medicine?

Answer 9

Disease and infection, surgery and anatomy, public health.

Question 10

In what year and period did Joseph Bazalgette begin building London’s underground sewer system?

Answer 10

1858 - industrial

Question 11

In what year and period did Joseph Lister publish details of carbolic spray?

Answer 11

1867 - industrial

Question 12

What has CAR got to do with understanding about the vaccines that Louis Pasteur developed?

Answer 12

C = chicken cholera A = anthrax in sheep R = rabies in humans

Question 13

What is an epidemic?

Answer 13

A disease which spreads widely, harms/kills lots of people and is very difficult to stop.

Question 14

-What were Koch’s three contributions towards discovering the causes of disease?

Answer 14

Solid medium, staining, method.

Question 15

What are the years of the Industrial period?

Answer 15

1750-1900

Question 16

What is a fun and memorable poem for remembering the first letter of each of the time periods (in the right order)?

Answer 16

People Eat Green Rolos During Rows In Turkey

Question 17

Why did some people oppose Edward Jenner’s vaccination?

Answer 17

They were worried about having animal matter injected into them.

Question 18

What are the factors we use in the History of Medicine?

Answer 18

Religion, Chance, War, Individuals, Science & Technology , Communications.

Question 19

What was Laissez-Faire?

Answer 19

A widely held belief at the start of the industrial period that it was not the job of government to try to improve public health.

Question 20

Define natural explanations of disease.

Answer 20

Explanations based on physical evidence, observation and scientific deduction (even if the science is wrong).

Question 21

-What did Edwin Chadwick’s discovery lead to being passed?

Answer 21

The 1848 Public Health act?

Question 22

-When did John Snow discover the link between cholera and dirty water?

Answer 22

1854.

Question 23

What was Lady Montague’s inoculation for?

Answer 23

Smallpox

Question 24

-What disease did Pasteur first use his vaccination ideas to treat a human for?

Answer 24

Rabies.

Question 25

What was the main difference between the 1848 and 1875 Public Health Acts?

Answer 25

The first was voluntary, the second was compulsory.

Question 26

What is surgery and anatomy the story of?

Answer 26

The story of people’s knowledge through History of the human body plus how operations have changed and improved over time.

Question 27

In what year was the ‘Great stink’ in London?

Answer 27

1858

Question 28

What are alternative names for the industrial period?

Answer 28

The nineteenth century and the industrial revolution.