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💉 Medicine c1700–1900 – GCSE
History · GCSE — Jenner, Pasteur, Lister, Nightingale, John Snow and the public health revolution
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Edward Jenner protected people against smallpox by infecting them with material from which milder disease?
Measles
Chickenpox
Scarlet fever
Cowpox
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In 1847 James Simpson discovered the anaesthetic effects of which chemical?
Chloroform
Nitrous oxide
Carbolic acid
Ether
20s
Which chemical did Joseph Lister use as an antiseptic in the 1860s?
Iodine
Chloride of lime
Chloroform
Carbolic acid
20s
In which war did Florence Nightingale run the army hospital at Scutari?
The Crimean War
The First World War
The Boer War
The Napoleonic Wars
20s
In 1882 Robert Koch identified the bacterium that causes which disease?
Smallpox
Cholera
Anthrax
Tuberculosis
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What did John Snow's investigation in London in 1854 show about how cholera spread?
It was spread by touching sick people
It was spread by fleas on rats
It was spread by contaminated water
It was spread by bad air or miasma
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In approximately which year did Louis Pasteur publish his germ theory?
1847
1861
1798
1883
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Why could Jenner not explain why his vaccination worked?
He had no patients to test it on
The government banned his research
Germ theory had not yet been developed
He refused to publish his results
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Why did deaths from surgery rise in the 'Black Period' after chloroform was introduced?
Chloroform overdoses killed most patients
Hospitals refused to wash their floors
Surgeons tried longer operations, spreading infection
Surgeons stopped using sharp instruments
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What was the key difference between the 1875 Public Health Act and the 1848 Act?
Councils were forced to improve public health
It set up a free national health service
Councils could choose to improve sanitation
It made smallpox vaccination free for all
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