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Cards (24)

  • Who invented the vaccind for smallpox?
    Edward Jenner
  • Who created the vaccine for TB?
    Robert Koch
  • Koch discovered bacteria caused...?
    Cholera
  • What did Louis Pasteur identify?

    The germ theory
  • Who made hospitals a safer and cleaner place?
    Florence Nightingale
  • Who discovered the link between the contaminated drinking water and cholera?
    John Snow
  • Who discovered chloroform?
    James Simpson
  • Who discovered carbolic acid?
    Joseph Lister
  • Inoculation
    deliberately infecting someone with a mild dose of a disease to build immunity
  • Vaccination
    similar type of illness which is not life threatening is used to build up immunity
  • Anaesthetic
    medication that numbs pain
  • Antiseptic
    fights infection
  • Why did the smallpox vaccine take time to be accepted?

    Jenner couldn't explain how the link between cowpox and smallpox worked
  • In 1854 they thought cholera was still linked to...

    Miasma
  • Symptoms of cholera
    diarrhea, sickness, dehydration
  • Cholera was a
    bacterial disease
  • How was cholera spread?

    Broad street pump
  • Pasteurs work didn't have much influence on Britain at the time because 

    he was only a chemist not a doctor
  • Louis Pasteur
    germ theory
  • Jenner
    discovered the smallpox vaccine
  • Nightingale
    developed nursing into a career
  • Simpson
    anaesthetic- chloroform
  • Lister
    antiseptics- carbolic acid
  • Pasteur proved...

    Spontaneous generation was wrong