Edexcel transformation of surgery.

A quiz on events and people throughout the edexcel transformation of surgery gcse.

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1. What did Pasteur use to get evidence for his germ theory?

  • placing a flask in the countryside and one in the city
  • tested on people
  • by washing his hands before surgery
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2. who found adding sodium citrate stopped blood from clotting?

  • Richard Lewisohn
  • Rous and Turner
  • Karl Landsteiner

3. Who helped the use of anaesthetics to spread?

  • Humphrey Davy
  • Queen Victoria
  • Florence nightingale

4. What were peoples reactions to Semmelweiss' ideas?

  • ignored
  • accepted
  • mixture

5. William Morton was the first surgeon in Britain to use ether as an anaesthetic?

  • False
  • True
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polly

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should be 'bandages soaked in carbolic acid' - not 'bandages soaked in bandages.

charles butler

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Thanks it was a typing error.

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