GCSE History | Advancements in Medicine in the 19th Century

History Quiz - Medicine: The Nineteenth Century (Questions)

GCSE History covers the subject of the world of medicine, and the advancements that have been made in it over time. One period that will be looked at closely is that of the 19th Century.

The 19th Century saw significant advancements in the world of medicine. This was the era of Lister, Simpson, Koch, Pasteur, Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Improvements included anaesthesia, bacteriology, the development of vaccines and the effective institution of the nursing profession.

Discover some of the advancements in medicine made during the 19th Century in this interesting quiz.

Which substance did Joseph Lister propose as an antiseptic wound treatment in 1865?

[ ]	Carbolic Acid
[ ]	Formic Acid
[ ]	Lysergic Acid
[ ]	Sulfuric Acid

James Young Simpson was a pioneer in Edinburgh of anaesthetics. Which substance did he reveal as an extremely effective anaesthetic?

[ ]	Chorophyll
[ ]	Chloroform
[ ]	Mercury
[ ]	Liquid Hydrogen

The German medical scientist, Robert Koch, called it "bacteriology". What name is usually given to his main discovery by 1881?

[ ]	Microbe theory
[ ]	Bacillus theory
[ ]	Germ theory
[ ]	Spore theory

After a massive cholera epidemic in Hamburg in 1892, scientists were clearer about the way to prevent the disease. What were their main recommendations?

[ ]	A mass vaccination campaign
[ ]	Improvements in sanitation and water systems
[ ]	The elimination of infection through asepsis
[ ]	The burning of the clothing of victims

Pasteur opened his institute in 1888. For which of the following diseases did he develop a vaccine?

[ ]	Anthrax
[ ]	Ebola
[ ]	Typhoid
[ ]	Typhus

What name is given to a widespread outbreak of a contagious disease across continents - or even worldwide?

[ ]	An epidemic
[ ]	An endemic
[ ]	A pandemic
[ ]	A geodemic

On return from nursing in the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale founded a nursing school at a well known London hospital. Which hospital was this?

[ ]	The Royal Free Hospital
[ ]	The Royal Marsden Hospital
[ ]	The Charing Cross Hospital
[ ]	St. Thomas's Hospital

The Jamaican-born nurse, Mary Seacole, founded a hospital near Sebastopol in the Crimea to tend the wounded. What name was given to this establishment?

[ ]	The British Clinic
[ ]	The British Hotel
[ ]	The British Hospital
[ ]	The British Infirmary

Between 1814 and 1886, in Britain and on the continent, Carpus, von Graefe, Mertauer, Dieffenbach, Roe, Weir, Israel and Monks worked on a kind of surgery which had to wait until the Twentieth Century to reach full fruition. What sort of surgery was that?

[ ]	Organ transplants
[ ]	Key hole Surgery
[ ]	Plastic Surgery
[ ]	Laser Surgery

10.

Where did Florence Nightingale set up her military hospital during the Crimean War?

[ ]	Scutari
[ ]	Trebizond
[ ]	Constantinople
[ ]	Sebastopol

History Quiz - Medicine: The Nineteenth Century (Answers)

Which substance did Joseph Lister propose as an antiseptic wound treatment in 1865?

[x]	Carbolic Acid
[ ]	Formic Acid
[ ]	Lysergic Acid
[ ]	Sulfuric Acid

Lister was knighted for his work in surgery

James Young Simpson was a pioneer in Edinburgh of anaesthetics. Which substance did he reveal as an extremely effective anaesthetic?

[ ]	Chorophyll
[x]	Chloroform
[ ]	Mercury
[ ]	Liquid Hydrogen

The original experiment with this substance sent all of the observers to sleep, including Simpson himself!

The German medical scientist, Robert Koch, called it "bacteriology". What name is usually given to his main discovery by 1881?

[ ]	Microbe theory
[ ]	Bacillus theory
[x]	Germ theory
[ ]	Spore theory

Koch had worked on tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax before coming up with his general idea

After a massive cholera epidemic in Hamburg in 1892, scientists were clearer about the way to prevent the disease. What were their main recommendations?

[ ]	A mass vaccination campaign
[x]	Improvements in sanitation and water systems
[ ]	The elimination of infection through asepsis
[ ]	The burning of the clothing of victims

1892 turned out to be the final fling of this fatal disease in Europe

Pasteur opened his institute in 1888. For which of the following diseases did he develop a vaccine?

[x]	Anthrax
[ ]	Ebola
[ ]	Typhoid
[ ]	Typhus

Pasteur, of course, gives his name to the procedure of pasteurisation to guarantee the purity of milk

What name is given to a widespread outbreak of a contagious disease across continents - or even worldwide?

[ ]	An epidemic
[ ]	An endemic
[x]	A pandemic
[ ]	A geodemic

Cholera would be a good example of this. Outbreaks often affected huge swathes of continents, or even the whole globe

On return from nursing in the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale founded a nursing school at a well known London hospital. Which hospital was this?

[ ]	The Royal Free Hospital
[ ]	The Royal Marsden Hospital
[ ]	The Charing Cross Hospital
[x]	St. Thomas's Hospital

Florence Nightingale hoped that - in the event of another war - her new school would produce sufficient nurses to make a difference to the inevitable wounded

The Jamaican-born nurse, Mary Seacole, founded a hospital near Sebastopol in the Crimea to tend the wounded. What name was given to this establishment?

[ ]	The British Clinic
[x]	The British Hotel
[ ]	The British Hospital
[ ]	The British Infirmary

Little was known about her and her work until relatively recently. Before her emergence into the limelight she tended to be overshadowed by Florence Nightingale

[ ]	Organ transplants
[ ]	Key hole Surgery
[x]	Plastic Surgery
[ ]	Laser Surgery

These were pioneers, but they worked mainly in isolation from each other

10.

Where did Florence Nightingale set up her military hospital during the Crimean War?

[x]	Scutari
[ ]	Trebizond
[ ]	Constantinople
[ ]	Sebastopol

Most of the patients treated here were affected by disease rather than war wounds