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Medicine Through Time - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 37 times
- The average score is 8 of 17
Answer Stats
| Dates | Time Period | Known For | Stats/Key Facts | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1928 | modern | discovered penicillin | killed bacteria in a lab accidentally | Alexander Fleming | 82%
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| C. 130-210AD | Ancient (influenced medieval) | Theory of opposites | wrote over 300 books used in Europe | Galen | 71%
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| C. 460-370 BC | Ancient (influenced medieval) | Theory of the four humours | blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile | Hippocrates | 71%
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| 1850s | industrial | improved hospital hygiene and nursing | cut death rates from 40% to 2% | Florence Nightingale | 68%
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| 1861 | industrial | Developed germ theory | disproved spontaneous generation | Louis Pasteur | 68%
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| 1796 | industrial | created first vaccine | smallpox vaccine led to a major fall in deaths | Edward Jenner | 57%
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| Early 1900s | modern | research into radiation and cancer treatment | led to radiotherapy | Marie Curie | 57%
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| 1854 | industrial | proved cholera spread by water | removed pump and cases dropped | John Snow | 54%
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| 1867 | industrial | introduced antiseptic surgery | infection rates in surgery fell | Joseph Lister | 50%
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| 1628 | renaissance | discovered heart is a pump that circulates blood | blood flows in a continuous circuit | William Harvey | 43%
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| 1543 | renaissance | disproved Galen by human dissection | proved jaw is one bone, published fabric of the human body | Andreas Vesalius | 39%
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| 1847 | industrial | discovered chloroform anaesthetic | made surgery painless | James Simpson | 36%
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| 1870s-1880s | industrial | identified specific bacteria that caused disease | found bacteria for TB and cholera | Robert Koch | 25%
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| 1940s | modern | developed penicillin for mass use | used widely in ww2 | Florey + Chain | 21%
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| 1855 | industrial | provided care for soldiers in Crimean war | funded her own hospital | Mary Seacole | 21%
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| 1842 | industrial | report on poor sanitation led to public health act | linked disease to filthy conditions | Edwin Chadwick | 11%
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| 1909 | modern | first ‘magic bullet drug’ (Salvarsan) | treated syphillis | Paul Ehrlich | 11%
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