Edexcel GCSE History Medicine
Through Time Questions and Answers
2026 Updated.
Louis Pasteur - Answer Theory of pasteurization. Notices that microorganisms were causing
the alcohol to go sour. Germ theory.
Koch - Answer Studied Pasteur's theories and discovered that you could grow
microorganisms successfully on agar jelly. He discovered the microorganisms in Anthrax (sheep)
and then later discovered the microorganism’s causing tuberculosis and cholera.
Edward Jenner - Answer Noticed that the milkmaids were not catching small pox because
they had got cow pox from the cows. Invented the vaccination where he would inject people
with cow pox which prevented them getting small pox which was much worse.
Hippocrates - Answer Ancient Greece
4 humours
Galen - Answer Developed the 4 humours- theory of opposites
Church supported ideas
Edwin Chadwick - Answer Wrote a report on the sanitary conditions of the population in
1842. He said the poor lived in horrible conditions which was why they were ill. Pushed the
government to pass the 1848 Public Health Act
John Snow - Answer 1854 he mapped all the cholera deaths and was able to trace the
outbreak to one pump. He removed the handle of the pump so that it couldn't be used and the
outbreak died down. Proved cholera came from water- little impact no germ theory
Florence Nightingale - Answer Unimpressed in the way nurses were trained
She sent a report to the government
Nightingales school of nursing
Uniform
Clean bedding
Through Time Questions and Answers
2026 Updated.
Louis Pasteur - Answer Theory of pasteurization. Notices that microorganisms were causing
the alcohol to go sour. Germ theory.
Koch - Answer Studied Pasteur's theories and discovered that you could grow
microorganisms successfully on agar jelly. He discovered the microorganisms in Anthrax (sheep)
and then later discovered the microorganism’s causing tuberculosis and cholera.
Edward Jenner - Answer Noticed that the milkmaids were not catching small pox because
they had got cow pox from the cows. Invented the vaccination where he would inject people
with cow pox which prevented them getting small pox which was much worse.
Hippocrates - Answer Ancient Greece
4 humours
Galen - Answer Developed the 4 humours- theory of opposites
Church supported ideas
Edwin Chadwick - Answer Wrote a report on the sanitary conditions of the population in
1842. He said the poor lived in horrible conditions which was why they were ill. Pushed the
government to pass the 1848 Public Health Act
John Snow - Answer 1854 he mapped all the cholera deaths and was able to trace the
outbreak to one pump. He removed the handle of the pump so that it couldn't be used and the
outbreak died down. Proved cholera came from water- little impact no germ theory
Florence Nightingale - Answer Unimpressed in the way nurses were trained
She sent a report to the government
Nightingales school of nursing
Uniform
Clean bedding
