GSCE History- Medicine Through Time
Key Individuals Questions and Answers
Graded A+
Aristotle- Ancient Greece - Correct answer-Linked disease to the Four Humours
(elements, seasons, humours.)
Thought symptoms were causes.
Hippocrates- Ancient Greece - Correct answer-Developed the Four Humours and
the idea of Clinical Observation.
Diagnosis-Prognosis-Observation-Treatment
Galen- Ancient Rome - Correct answer-Dissected animals, incorrect.
(Heart has pores, blood is used up).
Use of opposites.
Edward Jenner- 1796 - Correct answer-Small Pox vaccine .
Made compulsory in 1853, 1840 for infants.
, Mary Seacole- 1854 - Correct answer-Financed herself to go to help soldiers in the
Crimean War.
Sold goods to travelers.
Went bankrupt but wrote a book.
Florence Nightengale- 1849+ - Correct answer-She hugely improved ward
hygiene, death rate in the Crimean War wards dropped from 42% to 2%.
She made nursing respectable, in 1900 there were 64, 000 trained nurses.
Louis Pasteur- 1857+ - Correct answer-Discovered the Germ Theory (germs cause
disease) using the Swan Neck Flask.
Found the vaccine for Chicken Cholera in 1877 (CHANCE).
Anthrax and Rabies vaccines.
Robert Koch-1875+ - Correct answer-Discovered anthrax spores and the bacteria
that causes TB and cholera.
Used dyes and microscopes to colour microbes.
Erlich- 1889+ - Correct answer-1909- Salverson 606 was discovered which was a
magic bullet for syphilis made of an arsenic compound which targeted the bacteria
causing the disease without harming the rest of the body.
Key Individuals Questions and Answers
Graded A+
Aristotle- Ancient Greece - Correct answer-Linked disease to the Four Humours
(elements, seasons, humours.)
Thought symptoms were causes.
Hippocrates- Ancient Greece - Correct answer-Developed the Four Humours and
the idea of Clinical Observation.
Diagnosis-Prognosis-Observation-Treatment
Galen- Ancient Rome - Correct answer-Dissected animals, incorrect.
(Heart has pores, blood is used up).
Use of opposites.
Edward Jenner- 1796 - Correct answer-Small Pox vaccine .
Made compulsory in 1853, 1840 for infants.
, Mary Seacole- 1854 - Correct answer-Financed herself to go to help soldiers in the
Crimean War.
Sold goods to travelers.
Went bankrupt but wrote a book.
Florence Nightengale- 1849+ - Correct answer-She hugely improved ward
hygiene, death rate in the Crimean War wards dropped from 42% to 2%.
She made nursing respectable, in 1900 there were 64, 000 trained nurses.
Louis Pasteur- 1857+ - Correct answer-Discovered the Germ Theory (germs cause
disease) using the Swan Neck Flask.
Found the vaccine for Chicken Cholera in 1877 (CHANCE).
Anthrax and Rabies vaccines.
Robert Koch-1875+ - Correct answer-Discovered anthrax spores and the bacteria
that causes TB and cholera.
Used dyes and microscopes to colour microbes.
Erlich- 1889+ - Correct answer-1909- Salverson 606 was discovered which was a
magic bullet for syphilis made of an arsenic compound which targeted the bacteria
causing the disease without harming the rest of the body.
