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GCSE History-Medicine 1500-1700 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 190 times
- The average score is 6 of 31
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Vesalius discovered that the human lower jaw bone was in how many pieces? | 1 | 91%
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| Vesalius discovered that the human breast bone was in three parts, not... | Seven | 61%
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| What organisation allowed for scientists to share ideas? | Royal Society | 59%
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| What year was The Great Plague of London? | 1665 | 47%
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| Which famous doctor treated the disease, not the symptoms? | Thomas Sydenham | 36%
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| In what year was it invented? | 1440 | 32%
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| What were doctors who wore large cloaks and long beaks called? | Plague doctors | 29%
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| Vesalius discovered that the Vena Cava did not lead to the what? | Liver | 26%
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| Who now regularly visited patients in hospitals? | Physician | 26%
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| Most realised that there was no cure. Instead they tried to prevent it. How did they do this? | Quarantine for 28 days | 24%
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| Because of this, Martin Luther's "95 thesis" was being spread rapidly. Whose power was subsequently diminishing? | The Catholic Church | 22%
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| Who invented the printing press? | Johannes Gutenberg | 19%
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| New hospitals opened up to treat specific diseases. What were they called? | Pest houses | 15%
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| What was Harvey's discovery? | Circulatory system | 14%
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| What were put on doors so signify that an infected family were being quarantined in a house? | Red Crosses | 14%
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| This doctor also identified that measles and what were different? | Scarlet Fever | 11%
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| What eventually killed off the plague? | The winter | 10%
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| What new technology inspired Harvey's ideas? | Water pump | 10%
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| What was the name of said organisations main text? | "Philosophical transactions" | 9%
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| He also published "Observations Medicae." How long would this be the main medical textbook? | Two centuries | 8%
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| What were apothecary's now organised into? | Guilds | 7%
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| Substances such as salts, metals and minerals were being used as treatment. What was this called? | Iatrochemistry | 7%
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| In September 1665, mass ... scared all the rats away, for them to only come back 3 days later? | Fumigation | 6%
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| Children were given alcohol and what as a cure? | Opium | 5%
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| What was a known cure to Malaria at the time? | Peruvian Bark | 5%
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| The rich were given what as a treatment? | Unicorn horn | 4%
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| In what year did they first record these observations? | 1683 | 3%
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| Who first observed "animalcules"? | Antony Von Leeuwenhoek | 3%
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| What was a popular remedy that claimed to stop you from catching the plague? | Plague water | 3%
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| In 1665 who published "Micrographia" showing detailed images of a flea? | Robert Hooke | 3%
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| What were the people who kept others away from infected houses called? | Watchmen | 3%
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