Stats: Health And The People AQA GCSE

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Theory that disease is caused by bad air	Miasma	96%
Hippocrates' Theory	4 humours	86%
Who performed basic surgery?	Barber-surgeons	73%
What disease did Jenner use in the vaccines?	Cowpox	67%
How many new hospitals were built in London 1720-1750?	5	65%
Who discovered that the heart is a pump?	William Harvey	65%
What did the death rate in surgery fall to?	16%	63%
Where did Galen believe blood was made?	Liver	59%
What theory did Louis Pasteur prove?	Germ Theory	57%
What did Ambroise Paré use to tie blood vessels?	Ligatures	55%
Name the problem with surgery beginning with P	Pain	55%
Name the problem with surgery beginning with I	Infection	53%
What percentage of Middle Age hospitals actually cared for the sick?	10	51%
Who developed chloroform?	James Simpson	51%
Who knew about herbal remedies and delivered babies?	Wise women	51%
Who made nursing more respectable and opened a nursing school in 1860?	Florence Nightingale	49%
Which places had the best public health facilities?	Monasteries	49%
Who used chloroform during childbirth?	Queen Victoria	49%
When did the Black Death come to England?	1348	47%
When was the first Public Health Act?	1848	47%
Who was the first person to perform human dissections? (At Padua University)	Andreas Vesalius	47%
What kind of drug was penicillin?	Antibiotic	47%
Name a student of Hunter.	Edward Jenner	47%
When did the Great Plague hit London?	1665	45%
Who discovered penicillin's uses?	Alexander Fleming	45%
Who published a report in 1842 called "On the living conditions of the labouring population"?	Edwin Chadwick	45%
What was the attitude of the government, meaning that they didn't interfere in the lives of the people?	Laissez-faire	45%
Who were the medics trained at university who used urine charts and astrology?	Physicians	45%
Who developed it into a drug?	Florey and Chain	43%
Who was in charge of building London's sewers?	Joseph Bazalgette	43%
How successful were his surgeries?	50%	41%
When did the NHS open?	1948	39%
Name the problem with surgery beginning with B	Blood loss	39%
When was germ theory published?	1861	37%
What kind of surgery did Joseph Lister encourage?	Antiseptic	37%
What is it called when you heat liquids so the germs die?	Pasteurisation	37%
When was the Great Stink?	1858	35%
What percentage of the English population died of the Black Death?	40	35%
What bacterium did Koch discover in 1875?	Anthrax	35%
What book did Avicenna write?	Canon of Medicine	35%
When was the second Public Health Act?	1875	33%
What did Lister use to make surgery safer by killing germs?	Carbolic acid	33%
What was previously used to seal blood vessels?	Cauterisation	33%
What was the structure of DNA?	Double helix	33%
Who did he experiment on?	James Phipps	33%
What animals did Koch use to discover bacteria that caused diseases?	Mice	33%
Who invented the printing press (1450)?	Johannes Gutenburg	29%
Name Chadwick's key point (clean the __)	Streets	29%
When did it start to be mass produced? (For WWII)	1944	27%
In over how many ways did he prove Galen wrong?	200	27%
Who made up medicines and had limited training?	Apothecaries	27%
Where was the hospital that trained doctors in the Islamic world?	Baghdad	27%
Name the second anaesthetic.	Ether	27%
1906 Liberal Reform	Free school meals	24%
Who developed it?	Paul Ehrlich	24%
What did it target?	Syphilis	24%
Where was inoculation brought to England from?	Turkey	24%
When was the first vaccine developed by Edward Jenner for smallpox?	1796	22%
When was chloroform developed?	1847	22%
Who designed the chloroform inhaler in 1848?	John Snow	22%
What were people with no medical training selling supposed cures called?	Quack doctors	22%
When did John Snow prove that cholera was waterborne?	1854	20%
When was the sewer system of London completed?	1865	20%
What did this enable?	Blood transfusions	20%
Who died from inhaling too much chloroform during a surgery to remove a toenail?	Hannah Greener	20%
Who developed the 1914 mobile X-ray machine?	Marie Curie	20%
What was the name of the first magic bullet?	Salvarsan 606	20%
What was Lister's antiseptic surgery replaced by in the 1890s?	Aseptic surgery	18%
What kind of surgery uses very small incisions?	Keyhole	18%
Name the first proper anaesthetic.	Nitrous Oxide	18%
Who discovered the symptoms of smallpox, and built a hospital in the part of the city where meat was slowest to rot?	Rhazes	18%
What was it called when the monasteries closed down?	Dissolution	16%
Name Chadwick's key point (remove __)	Sewage	16%
Who developed plastic surgery techniques for burns victims?	Harold Gillies	14%
What was the name of the Islamic library that stored information from the Greeks and Romans?	House of Wisdom	14%
When was the Poor Law Act that led to more hospitals being built?	1867	12%
Name Chadwick's key point (clean __ __)	Drinking water	12%
Who publicly defended it?	John Tyndall	12%
Name Chadwick's key point (appoint a __ __)	Medical officer	12%
What book was written by ^^ and illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci (1543)?	On the Fabric of the Human Body	12%
1908 liberal reform	Pensions	12%
When was the first kidney transplant?	1954	10%
How many patients could be dealt with annually in London by 1800?	20 000	10%
What medicine involves therapies like hypno, aroma, acupuncture and homeopathy?	Alternative	10%
Who disagreed with him?	Charles Bastian	10%
What was the name of Rhazes' book?	Doubts about Galen	10%
Who discovered blood groups in 1901?	Karl Landsteiner	10%
What did he use this technique to remove?	Knee aneurysm	10%
1911 liberal reform	National insurance	10%
Who prevented victims from leaving their houses?	Watchmen	10%
How many patients died from surgery before Lister?	46%	8%
What were the lists of death made in each parish called?	Bills of Mortality	8%
Who researched DNA using X-Ray crystallography?	Rosalind Franklin	8%
Which team used this work to find the structure of DNA?	Watson and Crick	8%
What issue did John of Arderne pioneer surgery for?	Anal fistulas	6%
Who made reports on poverty after the Boer War recruitment showed how unfit the population was?	Booth and Rowntree	6%
Who was the first Englishwoman to qualify as a doctor?	Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson	6%
Name one dangerous patent medicine of the 1800s.	Laudanum	6%
What was the second magic bullet, developed by Domagk in 1932?	Prontosil	6%
What kind of surgery did Hunter perform?	Radical	6%
Who cleaned the streets?	Rakers	6%
What were public baths called?	Stewes	6%
Which PETHATS area did John Hunter affect?	Training	6%
When was the microscope invented by Joseph Jackson Lister (father of Joseph Lister)?	1826	4%
Name the problem with surgery beginning with A	Anatomical understanding	4%
Name one successful patent medicine of the 1800s.	Aspirin	4%
Which places provided free advice and medicine to the poor in the Industrial Revolution?	Dispensaries	4%
What kind of surgery joins tiny blood vessels and nerves for neural surgery and hand transplants?	Microsurgery	4%
Who identified plague victims?	Searchers	4%
Which bacterium did Koch discover in 1878?	Septicaemia	4%
Who wrote standard medical textbook Medical Observations (1676)?	Thomas Sydenham	4%
Who developed the X-ray in 1895?	William Rontgen	4%
1902 Liberal Reform	Midwives act	2%

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