December Mock Revision

• What are the 4 time periods in order?

  Medieval

  Renaissance

  Industrial

  Modern
• What are the 3 themes in this unit?

  D isease

  S urgery

  P ublic H ealth
• What are the 7 factors that impact change in Health and Medicine?


  I ndividuals

  W ar

  G overnment

  R eligion

  S cience and T ech

  C ommunication

  C hance
• Who are the 2 doctors from Ancient Greece and Rome whose ideas were important in the Middle Ages?

  H ippocrates

  G alen
• What did people think caused disease in the Middle Ages?

  F our H umours

  B ad A ir

  A strology

  G od
• Who treated disease in the Middle Ages and what treatment did they give?

  B arber S urgeons

  B loodletting
• Who were the Islamic individuals that made an impact on medieval medicine - what did they do?

  Ibn al-Nafis - Galen was wrong about the heart

  Rhazes - followed Galen but was critical

  Avicenna - wrote standard medical textbook
• Who controlled hospitals in the medieval period?

  The Church
• How did hospitals change in the Renaissance?

  Funded by private individuals

  No longer in religious buildings

  Tended to specialise
• What new treatments were there in the Renaissance?

  Q uinine

  T obacco
• Who were Quacks?

  Doctors with fake qualifications and cures
• In what year did Louis Pasteur discover Germ Theory?

  1861
• What did Paul Ehrlich discover?

  M agic B ullets
• What is an antibiotic?

  A substance that kills bacteria inside the body
• Who was the bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928?

  Alexander Fleming
• In what year did Florey and Chain receive government funding to mass produce penicillin?

  1942
• Which of the 7 factors were important in the development of penicillin?

  C hance

  I ndividuals

  C ommunication

  W ar

  G overnment

  S cience and T ech
• What do modern day people believe cause disease?

  G erms

  DNA

  L ifestyle
• What did Francis Crick and James Watson discover?

  The structure of DNA
• Which factor do you think is the most important in the modern treatment of disease - why?

  S cience and T ech

  Without it, we wouldn't have found treatments for lots of diseases - e.g. MRI scans
• What are the 3 big problems of surgery?

  P ain

  I nfection

  B lood L oss
• Whose work was knowledge of human anatomy based on in the Middle Ages?

  Galen
• Who published the book 'The Fabric of the Human Body' in 1543?

  Vesalius
• Where did Galen think that blood was produced in the human body?

  Liver
• Who proved that the heart pumped blood around the human body in 1628?

  William Harvey
• How would you describe the type of surgery available in the Middle Ages?

  S imple

  E xternal
• What is trepanning?

  Drilling holes in the skull to let out bad spirits
• Which 3 ingredients was Pare's ointment to treat gunshot wounds made of?

  R ose W ater

  T urpentine

  E gg W hite
• What is an anaesthetic?

  A substance used to control pain in surgery
• Which surgeon began to tackle the surgical problem of pain in the Middle Ages?

  John of Arderne
• Which Islamic surgeon suggested a way to combat blood loss in the Middle Ages?

  Abulcasis
• Which Renaissance surgeon suggested an alternative way to combat blood loss?

  Pare
• Which natural antiseptics were used to prevent infection in the Middle Ages?

  W ine

  H oney
• Who is a surgeon who developed a surgical tool in the Middle Age?

  John Bradmore
• Who is a surgeon who encouraged a scientific approach and experimentation in the Renaissance?

  John Hunter
• Which organisation was formed in 1662 to encourage doctors to think more scientifically?

  The Royal Society
• Who discovered chloroform in 1847?

  James Simpson
• Who used chloroform in childbirth?

  Queen Victoria
• What is an example of an antiseptic?

  Carbolic Acid
• What is aseptic surgery?

  Surgery in a completely sterile environment