When did the Black Death first hit Britain?
1348
1448
1665
1338
When was the first British Printing Press?
1500s
1480s
1470s
1510s
When did Vesalius publish 'The fabric of the Human Body"?
1643
1558
1543
1598
When was Harvey's "On the motion of the Heart Published"?
1722
1628
1634
1716
When was the Royal Society founded?
1750
1734
1660
1710
When did the Great Plague hit London?
1555
1664
1669
When was Sydenham's "Medical Observations" published?
1670
1659
1672
1676
When did Jenner publish his vaccination findings?
1798
1784
1794
When did James Simpson discover Chloroform?
1847
1823
1837
1855
When was the Smallpox Vaccine made compulsory?
1865
1848
1853
1851
When was John Snow's report "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera" published?
1876
1872
1869
What year did Florence Nightingale publish "Notes on Nursing"?
1859
1867
When did Pasteur publish the Germ Theory?
1858
1861
1871
1856
When did the government of Benjamin Disraeli pass the Public Health Act?
1875
1863
When did Robert Koch identify Anthrax Spores?
1880
1877
1884
When did Wilhelm Rontgen discover X-Rays?
1891
1898
1903
1895
What year did Ehrlich and Hata discover the first Magic Bullet, Salvarsan 606?
1913
1909
1907
1911
When did Alexander Fleming discover Penicillin?
1928
1930
1925
1921
In what year did Domagk discover the second Magic Bullet, Prontosil?
1926
1931
1932
1929
During which years did Florey and Chain purify Penicillin?
1930-42
1938-40
1928-36
1936-42
When did the government launch a Diphtheria vaccination campaign?
1940
1946
1937
1944
When was the NHS founded?
1843
1948
1950
1953
What does NHS stand for?
National Health Service
National Hummingbird Salutation
Northern Hemisphere Service
Naval Health Structure
When did Crick and Watson discover the structure of DNA?
1952
1956
When was the Government's first Polio vaccination campaign?
1949
1951
When were cigarette adverts banned from television?
1986
1965
1980
1974
When did Christian Barnard complete the first heart transplant?
1967
1970
1973
When was the Human Genome project completed?
2001
1999
2003
2000
When was smoking banned in public places?
2005-6
2009
2006-7
2004
What is the name of the theory developed in Ancient Greece to explain illness and later developed by Galen?
Miasma theory
The theory of Opposites
The theory of the four humours
Spontaneous Generation
What is the name for the time period of great medical change in the 16th and 17th centuries?
The Dark Ages
The Renaissance
Industrial Britain
The Reformation
What was the name of the group that was set up to enable educated people to discuss scientific ideas?
The Royal Scoiety
The Medical Society
The Scientific Association
The Society of London
The theory that illness is caused by bad smells is called...
Miasma
Uroscopy
What is the name of Jenner's discovery?
Magic Bullet
Inoculation
Vaccination
Blood Transfusions
Who was the first female to qualify as a doctor in Britain?
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Florence Nightingale
Sarah Nelmes
Who developed Pasteur's work further in 1875?
Crick and Watson
Koch
Florey and Chain
Fleming
What is the name given to drugs that stop infections caused by bacteria?
Antibiotics
Antibacterial
Antiseptic
Anaesthetics
What disease did the first Magic Bullet cure?
Measles
Syphilis
Anthrax
All of them!
Who paid for water to be pumped into London in 1609?
Bazalgette
James 1
Hugh Myddleton
Francis Chadwick
In what year was the Great Stink?
1860
1857
Who died after an overdose of chloroform?
Joseph Lister
James Chadwick
Hannah Greener
Edith Anderson
What substance did Lister use to limit infection?
Penicillin
Sodium Citrate
Carbolic Acid
Laughing Gas
What was the name of the surgeon who developed plastic surgery during WW1?
Liston
Gilles
French
Grayson
What did Landsteiner discover, and in what year?
The link between smoking and lung cancer
Third Magic Bullet
1901
Blood Groups
The link between health and poor living conditions