1. Medicine
1) Which Ancient Roman doctor influenced medieval medicine? 1
2) Name the Four Humours? 4
3) If you had a temperature which humour was out of balance? 1
4) Which religious group were blamed for starting the Black Death? 1
5) Name five causes of the Black Death 5
6) When did the Black Death hit Britain? 1
7) Name 2 things people thought caused the Great Plague 2
8) When was the Great Plague? 1
9) Name two ways in which the Church slowed the pace of change 2
10) What special type of stone did doctors give Charles II to cure him? 1
11) Who discovered circulation of the blood? 1
12) Name three reasons why circulation of the blood was discovered? 3
13) Name two of Vesalius’s discoveries 2
14) What was inoculation? 1
15) Name two problems with inoculation 2
16) Name the person who developed vaccination 1
17) Give two reasons why compulsory vaccination against smallpox was so
important 2
18) Give three reasons why smallpox vaccination was opposed 3
19) How did Louis Pasteur prove his germ theory was correct? 1
20) Who explained how vaccination worked? 1
21) How did Koch make it easier to identify which micro-organism caused
disease? 1
22) Name 4 things that helped Pasteur and Koch make their discoveries 4
23) Explain what a ‘magic bullet’ was 1

2. 24) Who discovered penicillin? 1
25) Give three reasons why Florey and Chain were able to produce penicillin on a
mass scale 3
26) Name three ways Florence Nightingale improved the Scutari Hospital 3
27) Name the book that Nightingale published in 1863 1
28) Name 2 ways Elizabeth Garrett Anderson helped women doctors 2
29) Describe 3 features of medieval hospitals 3
30) Describe 3 features of late twentieth century hospitals 3
31) Name 3 ways in which the role of doctors has changed during the twentieth
century 3
32) Name 3 ways in which the role of nurses has changed during the twentieth
century 3
33) What is DNA? 1
34) Name the 4 individuals who have been credited with discovering DNA 4
35) Name 3 twentieth century inventions and for each one explain how they help
medicine 6
Total out of 63