AQA GCSE History Medicine Through Time Key Facts. 101 Most commonly studied and Tested Facts.

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1 / 8 AQA GCSE History Medicine Through Time Key Facts 1. What are the four humours? 2. Who first suggested clinical observation? 3. Who used herbs to make 'medicines'? 4. What word described ... bad air? 5. What is Flagellation? 6. What did Hippocraties suggest that is still taken today? 7. Who developed the Theory of Opposites? 8. Who controlled belief about Medicine in Medieval times? 9. Who would perform surgery in Medieval times? 10. What policy did Catholic Hospitals have in Medieval times? 11. Who ran most hospitals in the Medieval Era? 12. Which hospital focused on looking after people that were 'mad'? 13. List three beliefs about disease in the Medieval Era? 14. Who translated Galen & Hippocrates' works into Islamic? 15. Who wrote the 'Canon of Medicine'? Ibn Sina 2 / 8 AQA GCSE History Medicine Through Time Key Facts 16. What time did developments from the Islamic World reach Europe? 17. What were the three problems with Surgery in the Medieval Era? 18. How did surgeons learn how to do the job in Medieval times? 19. Which Medieval surgeon learnt on the Battlefields and wrote 'The Practice of Surgery'? 20. What was used as an anaesthetic in the Medieval Era? 21. Where did Medieval people throw their waste? 22. Which town banned dumping rubbish in 1421, in an attempt to clean up the streets? 23. What year did the Black Death Epidemic reach Britain? 24. What percentage of the population did the Black Death kill? 25. What were the symptoms of the Black Death? 26. Who wrote 'On the Fabric of the Human Body'? 27. What was invented in 1440, allowing new ideas to spread rapidly? 28. What does 'Renaissance' mean? 29. Who developed ligatures? 3 / 8 30. Who proved that blood pumped through arteries and veins? 31. Did Renaissance individuals have more impact over the short or long term? 32. What was a Quack? 33. Who discovered that scurvy could be cured by eating fresh fruit and vegetables? 34. What was the Scientific Method? 35. What year was the Great Plague? 1665 36. What did Plague doctors wear to protect themselves from the Great Plague? 37. What were the Lord Mayor's Orders, 1665? 38. Which Renaissance surgeon is known as the 'father of scientific surgery?' 39. Which nurse saw death rates go from 42% to 2% under her watch? 40. Who developed innoculation and brought it to Britain? 41. Who developed vaccinations in 42. How much money does the Government give Jenner to develop vaccinations? 4 / 8 43. What year was Vaccination made compulsory in England and Wales? 44. Why did doctors oppose vaccinations? 45. Who discovered Germ Theory? 46. What theory suggested suggested that bacteria just appeared in diseases? 47. Which industry did Pasteur work for to prove Germ Theory? 48. Who later developed Pasteur's Germ Theory? 49. What did Robert Koch discover? 50. Why did some people not believe Germ Theory? 51. Who invented the technique of staining bacteria so it could be viewed under a microscope? 52. Which organisation was set up to oppose vaccinations? 53. Who developed 'Magic Bullets'? 54. What was a 'Magic Bullet'? 55. Which drug did Ehrlich develop in 1909 to cure syphilis? 56. What impact did Ehrlich's work have on the pharmaceutical industry? 5 / 8 57. Which gas did Humphry Davy experiment on to dull pain? 58. Who develops the use of Chloroform? 59. Which person convinces the public that Chloroform is safe? 60. Why did anaesthetics initially increase deaths in surgery? 61. Which doctor in 1847 makes his team wash their hands with Calcium Chloride? 62. Who developed the use of Carbolic Spray? Joseph Lister 63. What were the problems with Carbolic Spray? Slippery 64. Who, in 1890, starts to use protective clothing in surgery to stop germs getting to patients? 65. What is the difference between antiseptic and aseptic surgery? 66. What were conditions like in towns at the start of the 19th century? 67. What policy did the British government take towards Publich Health until 1848? 68. Which disease had an epidemic in 1848? Cholera 69. Who discovered the cause of Cholera was dirty water? 6 / 8 70. Who built the London sewers? 71. Which event of 1858 made the Government employ Bazalgette to build sewers in London? 72. Who pioneered the idea of medical statistics in the 19th century? 73. Who investigated the living conditions of the poor, and inspired the 1848 PH Act? 74. What year was the first Public Health Act? 1848 75. What was the problem with the first Public Health Act? 76. What year was the second Public Health Act introduced? 77. What did the second Public Health Act intoduce? 78. What year was the Factory Act aimed at improving conditions in factories? 79. Which drug did Alexander Fleming accidentally discover on his petri dish? 80. Who developed Penicillin further in 1938? Florey and Chain 81. Which conflict led to the American government funding the mass production of Penicillin? 82. What factors were important in the development of Penicillin? 83. What was the long term impact of Penicillin? 84. What was Penicillin the first example of? 85. What is an example of a drug development that was not a success in the 1960s? 86. What is the long term problem with Antibiotics? 87. Name 2 alternative treatments that are used in 88. Name 2 developments WW1 had in medicine Talking 89. What was discovered by William Roentgen in 1895? 90. Which practitioner discovered blood groups? 91. Why was Keyhole Surgery a safer alternative? 92. Which two individuals wrote books highlighting poverty in the early 20th Century? 93. Which war led the Liberal Government to introduce reforms for Public Health? 94. What year was the National Insurance Act? 1911 95. What did the Liberal Government introduce in schools in 1906? 8 / 8 What programme did Lloyd George set up after WW1 to provide houses for soldiers? 97. Which report led to the creation of the Welfare State? 98. What were the 'Five Giants' highlighted in Beveridge's Report? 99. Which Minister set up the NHS? 100. What was the main aim for the NHS? 101. List 2 problems facing the NHS today [Show More]

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