GCSE History-Medicine 1700-1900

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Microbes are the product of decay, not the cause of it.

What year did Pasteur publish "Germ theory?"

Who was the main opposition to germ theory?

What type of microbes did Koch put on sheep tissue and then feed to a mouse to prove that they do cause disease?

What year did he discover the microbes responsible for TB?

What year did he discover the bacteria responsible for Cholera?

What year did Humphrey Davies discover Nitrous oxide?

In 1846 what anaesthetic did Liston use?

Why was Ether dangerous?

In 1847 who discovered Chloroform?

When delivering their 8th child, who claimed that Chloroform was "blessed" giving it massive credibility?

What was the main problem with Chloroform?

What did Joseph Lister discover?

Lister's theory spread faster than what, meaning therefore that the science behind antiseptics was not understood?

Death rate without antiseptics was 45%, what was it when using Carbolic acid?

In what war did Florence Nightingale serve in?

What was the top priority in Nightingales work when caring for the wounded?

How did she want all hospitals to be built?

Nightingale turned nursing into what?

Who first witnessed inoculation and first brought it to England?

Who discovered vaccination in 1799?

What year were compulsory vaccinations strictly enforced?

Why couldn't Jenner use his discovery to develop new vaccines?

In 1885 who tests the rabbies vaccine - the first successful one since Jenner?

What the government does to look after its people.

Before the public health acts, what demographic has a life expectancy of 17?

When was the first public health act?

When was the second public health act?

In 1828, which country has a cholera outbreak in which the disease spreads all over the world due to it being the trade centre of the world?

What year was the main outbreak of cholera in London?

Who led and investigation to combat the outbreak?

What was the main source of the outbreak?