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Grades 11 and 12 - History - Senior High School - Medicine: The Nineteenth Century
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Grades 11 and 12 - History - Senior High School - Medicine: The Nineteenth Century
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1. Where did Florence Nightingale set up her military hospital during the Crimean War?
2. On return from nursing in the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale founded a nursing school at a well known London hospital. Which hospital was this?
3. 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?
4. Which substance did Joseph Lister propose as an antiseptic wound treatment in 1865?
5. James Young Simpson was a pioneer in Edinburgh of anesthetics. Which substance did he reveal as an extremely effective anesthetic?
6. 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?
7. What name is given to a widespread outbreak of a contagious disease across continents - or even worldwide?
8. After a massive cholera epidemic in Hamburg in 1892, scientists were clearer about the way to prevent the disease. What were their main recommendations?
9. Pasteur opened his institute in 1888. For which of the following diseases did he develop a vaccine?
10. The German medical scientist, Robert Koch, called it 'bacteriology'. What name is usually given to his main discovery by 1881?

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