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What was the life expectancy in the 1350s?
30 years
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Name two agricultural animals kept indoors with homeowners which increased disease.
Cows and pigs
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What are the Four Humours?
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile (vomit) and black bile (blood in vomit)
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State the humour. Spring and air.
Blood
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State the humour. Winter and water.
Phlegm
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State the humour. Summer and fire
Yellow bile
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State the humour. Autumn and earth
Black bile
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Name a Greek physician in the Roman Empire who used and 'perfected' the Four Humours.
Galen
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What Greek devised the theory of the Four Humours.
Hippocrates
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Give two ways to balance the Four Humours.
Purging and bloodlletting
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What was the ancient title for doctor?
Physician
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In what year was the Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
1348
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What caused the Black Death?
Fleas in rats that would spread disease when biting humans.
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What is the name of the idea that bad air causes disease?
Miasma Theory
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Name a food used to cool people down if they had a temperature.
Cucumber
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State 6 techniques/people/organisations that dealt with the sick in the Middle Ages.
Trained physician, apothecary, barber-surgeon, hospital, housewife-physician and prayer and pilgrimage.
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Who ran hospitals in the Middle Ages?
Monks and nuns
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What idea did the trained physician base their treatment on?
Four Humours
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What was the main difference between trained physicians and the apothecary?
Physicians were trained and had qualifications due to passing exams, the apothecary was trained but not qualified.
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What did the barber-surgeon practice lots of in his work?
Bloodletting
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What were used as remedies to cure diseases?
Herbs
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Where was the first medical school and in what century was it founded?
Salerno in the 12th century
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In what year was the Royal Society set up?
1660
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What book did Andreas Vesalius publish which gave detail to the human anatomy?
The Fabric of the Human Body
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In what year did Andreas Vesalius publish his book?
1543
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Where was Andreas Vesalius Professor of Surgery?
University of Padua in Italy
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True or false. Vesalius proved lots of Galen's ideas about the human anatomy to be wrong.
True
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Give an example of Vesalius proving Galen wrong on the human anatomy.
Galen said the human jaw was made of two bones, Vesalius proved it was made of one.
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In what country was the printing press invented and in what century?
Germany in the mid-15th century
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Name another person who proved Galen to be wrong.
William Harvey
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Give an example of how Harvey proved Galen wrong.
Galen said the body constantly manufactured blood and that it was used up as it travelled around the body, Harvey proved this to be wrong.
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What book did Harvey publish in 1628 which explained how the heart works as a pump circulating blood around the body.
An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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Who developed a better lense for microscopes which discovered bacteria?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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In what year did Leeuwenhoek develop the better lense?
1673
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What name did Leeuwenhoek give to bacteria in a letter to the Royal Society?
Animalcules
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What happened in London in 1665?
Plague epidemic
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True or false. Some thought that the King's touch would relieve them of tuberculosis.
True
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What is the shorter known name for tuberculosis?
TB
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What were women taught compared to medicine?
How to run a home
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In what year did Edward Jenner test his vaccination for smallpox?
1796
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In what year was the first population census in Britain?
1801
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In what year did cholera first arrive in Britain?
1831
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In what year was the General Medical Act passed?
1858
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In what year did Florence Nightingale publish her notes on nursing?
1860
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In what year did Louis Pasteur publish his Germ Theory?
1861
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In what year did Elizabeth Garrett Anderson qualify as a doctor?
1865
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State another theory alongside Miasma that supposedely caused disease in the Renaissance?
Spontaneous Generation
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What is the same as inoculation?
Vaccination
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Who gave the name vaccination to vaccinations?
Edward Jenner
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How much money was Jenner rewarded by the British government for his work on vaccinations?
£30,000
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In what year did the government make it the law to be vaccinated against diseases?
1852
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True or false. Bloodletting and purging were still used as a means of treatment in the Middle Ages.
True
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True or false. Criminals were used to carry out dissections in the Renaissance.
True
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What theory did Florence Nightingale believe in?
Miasma
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What war did Nightingale work in?
Crimean War
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In what year and where did the first cottage hospital open?
1859 and Sussex
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When did the Great Ormond Street Hospital open?
1852
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What does MMR stand for?
Mumps, measles and rubella
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What was the first magic bullet called?
Salvarsan 606
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What was the second magic bullet called?
Prontosil
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Who accidently developed penicillin in 1928?
Alexander Fleming
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What does GP stand for?
General practitioner
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Name three types of medical staff that can carry out operations.
Doctors, GPs and consultants.
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How were many hospitals funded in 1900?
Charity
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Who organised the Rose Day which raised money for hospitals?
Queen Alexandra
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How much money did the first Rose Day accumulate for hospitals?
£2 million
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Why did the British government play a greater role in public health at the turn of the 20th century?
Needed its army/volunteers to be fit for wars to protect and expand the British Empire
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Who led the Liberals to victory in the 1905 general election?
David Lloyd George
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In what year was the Ministry of Health set up?
1919
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In what year did women get the vote in Britain?
1918
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True or false. Coca-Cola was originally developed for medical purposes.
True
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What report in 1942 suggested a National Health Service (NHS) should be set up?
Beveridge Report
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In what year was the NHS set up?
1948
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Who was the Minister of Health when the NHS was set up?
Aneurin Bevan
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Who and why in the medical world opposed Bevan?
Doctors as they feared they'd lose private fees.
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How was/is the NHS paid for?
Taxes
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Who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953?
Francis Crick and James Watson
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In what year was the Human Genome Project started?
1990
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When was the first draft of the Human Genome Project completed?
2000
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When and who discovered the four different blood groups?
Karl Landsteiner in 1901
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When did the Romans conquer Britain?
43CE
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State three ways that the Romans improved public health in Britain.
Aqueducts, sewers and public baths
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When did the Romans leave Britain?
410CE
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Why could the Romans communicate their ideas effectively?
Roads
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Where could the rich be treated by physicians?
At home
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Where was the main centre for medical training and why?
Alexandria in Egypt as dissections could take place.
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True or false. Many Roman treatemens linked to the Four Humours were based around changing a persons lifestyle.
True
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Who treated people in Britain before the Romans arrived.
Druid priests
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How were beds positioned in Middle Age hospitals?
Towards religious relics
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Who left money at their death for the improvement of public health?
**** Whittington (Mayor of London)
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What were people with leprosy known as?
Lepers
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What were public baths also known as?
Stewes
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Who suggested building an artificial river from Hertfordshire to London and when, and when was it finished?
Edmund Colthurst in 1602 and finished in 1613
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What was London's approximate population in the Renaissance?
100,000
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In times of epidemics what was burnt in the streets?
Barrels of tar to purify the air
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True or false. Dogs and cats were killed to stop the spreading of the plague.
True
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Who devises the idea to build the London sewage system?
Joseph Bazalgette
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Who suggested that taxes should be used to improve public health?
Edwin Chadwick
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What allowed Bazalgette's idea of a London sewage system to go ahead?
The Great Stink of 1858
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When was the Old Age Pensions Act passed?
1908
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What are the Four Humours?

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State the humour. Spring and air.

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State the humour. Winter and water.

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