Health And The People AQA GCSE

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