Who wrote about the benefits of nitrous oxide as an anaesthetic in 1799?
James Simpson
Humphry Davy
Louis Pasteur
Which anaesthetic did James Simpson discover?
Chloroform
Nitrous oxide
Carbolic acid
Which product did Louis Pasteur first discover was caused to go bad because of bacteria?
Bread
Milk
Wine
What was the first specific bacteria identified by Robert Koch?
Anthrax
Cholera
Tuberculosis
Which of these was a reason people opposed the use of carbolic spray?
It irritated the skin on their hands
It was too expensive
It made the patient feel more pain
Which disease did Louis Pasteur find a vaccine for in 1879?
Smallpox
Chicken cholera
What did Robert Koch do to make bacteria easier to see under a microscope?
Stained them with dye
Heated them up
Froze them
Which of these dangers of surgery did carbolic spray help to reduce?
Pain
Infection
Blood loss
Which British scientist opposed Pasteur’s germ theory?
Robert Koch
John Tyndall
Henry Bastian
Which doctor developed a chloroform inhaler to allow chloroform to be safely administered?
John Snow
Robert Liston