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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which isn't one of the 4 humours?
Sweat
Phlegm
Yellow Bile
Blood
Black Bile
- 2. Multiple Choice
What time period is often called the “rebirth of the science of medicine.”
Dark Ages
Middle Ages
Renaissance
17th Century
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these individuals understood and believed in germ theory to help their developments?
Edwin Chadwick
John Snow
Florence Nightingale
Robert Koch
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which 3 of these factors helped Florey and Chain's mass production of penicillin?
Government
Religion
Communication
War
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhich individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?HarveySydenhamVesaliusPare
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who promoted and defended Galen's work?
physician priests
Galen's students
Pharohs/emperor's
The Church
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is miasma?
Bad air
Bad breath
- 8. Multiple ChoiceLaissez-Faire meansLeave aloneAct nowStay clearCholera present
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe first public health act was in1842184818541858
- 10. Multiple Choice
The British Government made the Vaccination compulsory in
1798
1802
1835
1853
- 11. Multiple Choice
Acceptance of dissection of the body, invention of the printing press, and a renewed interest in medicine:
Middle ages
Dark Ages
Renaissance
Egyptians
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat disease occurred during the Middle Ages that killed 75% of the population in Europe and Asia?Yellow FeverPolioBubonic plagueDiabetes
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich individual developed the idea of observing symptoms?SydenhamVesaliusHarveyPare
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat happened to you if someone in your household had the plague?You were quarantined for 40 daysYou were allowed to leave the cityYou had to walk through the streets whipping yourselfYou had to go to church
- 15. Multiple Choice
When was the National Health service created?
1948
1949
1950
- 16. Multiple Choice
In what century was the printing press invented?
14th
15th
16th
17th
- 17. Multiple Choice
Why was the Public Health Act 1875 more effective than the 1848 Act?
It provided more funding for new sewers
It was compulsory
More working class men had been given the vote in 1867
Germ theory and other developments had shown that good sanitation was important
- 18. Multiple Choice
When did the Church and Christian believes play the greatest role in medicine?
Medieval times
The Renaissance / Early Modern times
The industrial era
The modern era
- 19. Multiple Choice
In which period did communications greatly improve due to the invention and spread of the printing press?
Medieval times
The Renaissance / Early Modern times
The industrial era
The modern era
- 20. Multiple Choice
Who was Edwin Chadwick and how did he try to help improve public health?
An engineer who built the London Sewer system
A surgeon who took the handle off the broad street pump to stop the outbreak of Cholera
A scientist that discovered Germ Theory
Lawyer and social reformer. He tried to convince the government to spend money on public health as healthier workers meant more money for the country
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