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Medicine in Britain, c.1250- Present - QUIZ

Question 1 of 44

1

When did the Black Death first hit Britain?

Select one of the following:

  • 1348

  • 1448

  • 1665

  • 1338

Explanation

Question 2 of 44

1

When was the first British Printing Press?

Select one of the following:

  • 1500s

  • 1480s

  • 1470s

  • 1510s

Explanation

Question 3 of 44

1

When did Vesalius publish 'The fabric of the Human Body"?

Select one of the following:

  • 1643

  • 1558

  • 1543

  • 1598

Explanation

Question 4 of 44

1

When was Harvey's "On the motion of the Heart Published"?

Select one of the following:

  • 1722

  • 1628

  • 1634

  • 1716

Explanation

Question 5 of 44

1

When was the Royal Society founded?

Select one of the following:

  • 1750

  • 1734

  • 1660

  • 1710

Explanation

Question 6 of 44

1

When did the Great Plague hit London?

Select one of the following:

  • 1555

  • 1665

  • 1664

  • 1669

Explanation

Question 7 of 44

1

When was Sydenham's "Medical Observations" published?

Select one of the following:

  • 1670

  • 1659

  • 1672

  • 1676

Explanation

Question 8 of 44

1

When did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?

Select one of the following:

  • 1628

  • 1798

  • 1784

  • 1794

Explanation

Question 9 of 44

1

When did James Simpson discover Chloroform?

Select one of the following:

  • 1847

  • 1823

  • 1837

  • 1855

Explanation

Question 10 of 44

1

When was the Smallpox Vaccine made compulsory?

Select one of the following:

  • 1865

  • 1848

  • 1853

  • 1851

Explanation

Question 11 of 44

1

When was John Snow's report "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" published?

Select one of the following:

  • 1876

  • 1872

  • 1855

  • 1869

Explanation

Question 12 of 44

1

What year did Florence Nightingale publish "Notes on Nursing"?

Select one of the following:

  • 1859

  • 1867

  • 1848

  • 1869

Explanation

Question 13 of 44

1

When did Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?

Select one of the following:

  • 1858

  • 1861

  • 1871

  • 1856

Explanation

Question 14 of 44

1

When did the government of Benjamin Disraeli pass the Public Health Act?

Select one of the following:

  • 1848

  • 1856

  • 1875

  • 1863

Explanation

Question 15 of 44

1

When did Robert Koch identify Anthrax Spores?

Select one of the following:

  • 1876

  • 1880

  • 1877

  • 1884

Explanation

Question 16 of 44

1

When did Wilhelm Rontgen discover X-Rays?

Select one of the following:

  • 1891

  • 1898

  • 1903

  • 1895

Explanation

Question 17 of 44

1

What year did Ehrlich and Hata discover the first Magic Bullet, Salvarsan 606?

Select one of the following:

  • 1913

  • 1909

  • 1907

  • 1911

Explanation

Question 18 of 44

1

When did Alexander Fleming discover Penicillin?

Select one of the following:

  • 1928

  • 1930

  • 1925

  • 1921

Explanation

Question 19 of 44

1

In what year did Domagk discover the second Magic Bullet, Prontosil?

Select one of the following:

  • 1926

  • 1931

  • 1932

  • 1929

Explanation

Question 20 of 44

1

During which years did Florey and Chain purify Penicillin?

Select one of the following:

  • 1930-42

  • 1938-40

  • 1928-36

  • 1936-42

Explanation

Question 21 of 44

1

When did the government launch a Diphtheria vaccination campaign?

Select one of the following:

  • 1940

  • 1946

  • 1937

  • 1944

Explanation

Question 22 of 44

1

When was the NHS founded?

Select one of the following:

  • 1843

  • 1948

  • 1950

  • 1953

Explanation

Question 23 of 44

1

What does NHS stand for?

Select one of the following:

  • National Health Service

  • National Hummingbird Salutation

  • Northern Hemisphere Service

  • Naval Health Structure

Explanation

Question 24 of 44

1

When did Crick and Watson discover the structure of DNA?

Select one of the following:

  • 1952

  • 1950

  • 1953

  • 1956

Explanation

Question 25 of 44

1

When was the Government's first Polio vaccination campaign?

Select one of the following:

  • 1956

  • 1949

  • 1951

  • 1953

Explanation

Question 26 of 44

1

When were cigarette adverts banned from television?

Select one of the following:

  • 1986

  • 1965

  • 1980

  • 1974

Explanation

Question 27 of 44

1

When did Christian Barnard complete the first heart transplant?

Select one of the following:

  • 1967

  • 1970

  • 1965

  • 1973

Explanation

Question 28 of 44

1

When was the Human Genome project completed?

Select one of the following:

  • 2001

  • 1999

  • 2003

  • 2000

Explanation

Question 29 of 44

1

When was smoking banned in public places?

Select one of the following:

  • 2005-6

  • 2009

  • 2006-7

  • 2004

Explanation

Question 30 of 44

1

What is the name of the theory developed in Ancient Greece to explain illness and later developed by Galen?

Select one of the following:

  • Miasma theory

  • The theory of Opposites

  • The theory of the four humours

  • Spontaneous Generation

Explanation

Question 31 of 44

1

What is the name for the time period of great medical change in the 16th and 17th centuries?

Select one of the following:

  • The Dark Ages

  • The Renaissance

  • Industrial Britain

  • The Reformation

Explanation

Question 32 of 44

1

What was the name of the group that was set up to enable educated people to discuss scientific ideas?

Select one of the following:

  • The Royal Scoiety

  • The Medical Society

  • The Scientific Association

  • The Society of London

Explanation

Question 33 of 44

1

The theory that illness is caused by bad smells is called...

Select one of the following:

  • Miasma

  • Spontaneous Generation

  • Uroscopy

  • The theory of the four humours

Explanation

Question 34 of 44

1

What is the name of Jenner's discovery?

Select one of the following:

  • Magic Bullet

  • Inoculation

  • Vaccination

  • Blood Transfusions

Explanation

Question 35 of 44

1

Who was the first female to qualify as a doctor in Britain?

Select one of the following:

  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

  • Florence Nightingale

  • Sarah Nelmes

Explanation

Question 36 of 44

1

Who developed Pasteur's work further in 1875?

Select one of the following:

  • Crick and Watson

  • Koch

  • Florey and Chain

  • Fleming

Explanation

Question 37 of 44

1

What is the name given to drugs that stop infections caused by bacteria?

Select one of the following:

  • Antibiotics

  • Antibacterial

  • Antiseptic

  • Anaesthetics

Explanation

Question 38 of 44

1

What disease did the first Magic Bullet cure?

Select one of the following:

  • Measles

  • Syphilis

  • Anthrax

  • All of them!

Explanation

Question 39 of 44

1

Who paid for water to be pumped into London in 1609?

Select one of the following:

  • Bazalgette

  • James 1

  • Hugh Myddleton

  • Francis Chadwick

Explanation

Question 40 of 44

1

In what year was the Great Stink?

Select one of the following:

  • 1858

  • 1860

  • 1857

  • 1861

Explanation

Question 41 of 44

1

Who died after an overdose of chloroform?

Select one of the following:

  • Joseph Lister

  • James Chadwick

  • Hannah Greener

  • Edith Anderson

Explanation

Question 42 of 44

1

What substance did Lister use to limit infection?

Select one of the following:

  • Penicillin

  • Sodium Citrate

  • Carbolic Acid

  • Laughing Gas

Explanation

Question 43 of 44

1

What was the name of the surgeon who developed plastic surgery during WW1?

Select one of the following:

  • Liston

  • Gilles

  • French

  • Grayson

Explanation

Question 44 of 44

1

What did Landsteiner discover, and in what year?

Select one or more of the following:

  • 1974

  • The link between smoking and lung cancer

  • Third Magic Bullet

  • 1901

  • Blood Groups

  • 1860

  • The link between health and poor living conditions

Explanation

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