history medicine modern

• what is an antibiotic?


  a drug made from bacteria to kill other bacteria to cure infection or illness.
• who discovered penicillin?


  alexander flemming?
• how did flemming discover penicillin?

  we went on holiday and came back and the bacteria be hand left in petri dishes had been killed
• flemming wrote about his discovery in a medical journal but what happend when he published it?

  the other scientists laughed in his face because there was no scientific proof that it worked
• who developed penicillin?


  florey and chain.
• Government played a big role in the development of penicillin because?

  they funded five years of research for penicillin.
• what is a magic bullet?

  using a chemical to kill specific bacteria without harming the body.
• what did Ehrlich think?

  that a chemical can be used not just to stain bacteria using infection but which kill bacteria
• who came up with the first magic bullet?

  Ehrlich
• what did the first magic bullet treat

  syphilis
• what did he call the first magic bullet?

  salvarson 606
• what was the disadvantage of salvarsan 606

  it was poisonous.
• who created the second ever magic bullet?

  Domagk
• what was the main ingredient in the second magic bullet?

  prontosil.
• what was the first thing Domagk tested on?

  a mice.
• what was the second thing Domagk tested?

  on a human with a infection?
• what was rosalind franklin develop?

  the first ever photo of a single strand of DNA.
• who where the two scientist's who worked together on the structure of DNA?

  Watson and Crick
• what did watson and crick prove?

  that DNA passes the genetic information from parent to child.
• what did william beveridge suggest?


  a social insurance system
• what did the social insurance system state?

  That the Government, employers, and employs pay in a tax for sick pay, unemployment pay and more .
• why did the Liberal Government wanted to improve medical care?

  because of the health of the working class was so bad they had to turn down soldiers for the was as they were unfit to fight.