Medicine in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, c.1700-c.1900 test questions - Edexcel

1

What became the workplace of most people as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

2

What theory did Louis Pasteur publish in 1861?

3

What item of technology did Robert Koch use to discover individual types of bacteria?

4

Robert Koch discovered the bacteria that cause which disease?

5

Which disease was targeted by the first vaccine?

6

What was the name of the anaesthetic discovered by James Simpson?

7

Who first used carbolic acid to remove germs around an operation?

8

In what year did the government make the smallpox vaccine compulsory?

9

Who discovered that cholera was spread by dirty water?

10

What did Joseph Bazalgette build in London?