1. Test on medicine 3000BC-2000AD
Ancient medicine
1. For each of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, give one piece of evidence to show that they
believed the supernatural was involved in medicine. 3
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2. For each of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, give one piece of evidence about their doctors.
3
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3. For each of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, give one piece of evidence to show that they did
not always make advances in medicine. 3
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4. List 3 things you could do in an Asclepeion. 3
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5. Give 3 advances between Roman public health and Egyptian public health. 3
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6. List three things that Hippocrates gave to medicine. 3
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7. Name 3 things that Galen claimed about the human body which were wrong. 3
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Medieval medicine
8. How did Galen’s work end up being followed in Western Europe in the Middle Ages. 1
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9. Give 3 medieval explanations for the Black Death. 3
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2. 10. Describe 3 different types of medieval doctor. 3
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11. Give 3 examples of local authorities beginning to care about public health in the Middle Ages. 3
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12. How would a patient be diagnosed in the medieval period? 2
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Renaissance medicine
13. Give 2 treatments that were tried on King Charles II that showed medieval ideas still in practice.
2
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14. Which Renaissance doctor was the first to challenge Galen’s ideas? 1
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15. Pare invented ligatures, ointments rather than cauterisation and what else? 1
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16. Give one difference between the way people handled the Black Death in 1348 and the Plague in
1665. 1
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17. Why were the printing press and microscope so important to medicine in the Renaissance
period? 2
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Industrial medicine
18. Explain why people’s health got worse in the Industrial period. 2
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19. Explain how new technology improved public health in the 19th century. 2
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3. 20. List 3 things that Pasteur discovered to advance medicine in the 19th century. 3
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21. List 3 things that Koch discovered to advance medicine in the 19th century. 3
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22. What did Lady Mary Wortley Montagu contribute to the advance of medicine? 1
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23. Which vaccination was made compulsory by the government in the mid 19th century? 1
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24. What was the key difference between the government’s 1848 Public Health Act and their 1875
one? 1
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25. What was the most popular medical treatment used in the late 19th century? 1
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20th century medicine
26. What was the name of the first magic bullet? 1
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27. Give 2 things that changed in medicine because of the First World War. 2
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28. How did WW2 contribute to the mass production of penicillin? 1
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29. Give 2 arguments used by doctors opposing Bevan and the establishment of the NHS. 2
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30. Give 2 NHS services, initially free, which had to be paid for by 1951. 2
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31. Name 2 people who contributed to Watson and Crick’s success in discovering the structure of
DNA. 2
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4. 32. Name 3 laws passed by the Liberal Government of 1906-1912 that improved public health. 3
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Comparisons
33. State two major differences between 19th and 20th century doctors. 2
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34. Give 2 treatments that were used in both medieval times and in the 19th century. 2
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35. Give 3 examples of luck causing advances in medicine from DIFFERENT time periods. 3
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36. Give 2 examples of communication being vital in advancing medicine from DIFFERENT time
periods. 2
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37. Give 2 examples of the government advancing medicine, one from the medieval period and one
from the industrial period. 2
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38. Give 1 idea in medicine that has been around in every generation from 3000BC to 2000AD. 1
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