Q.1
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
Q.2
Where did Florence Nightingale set up her military hospital during the Crimean War?
  • Scutari
  • Trebizond
  • Constantinople
  • Sebastopol
Q.3
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
Q.4
Which substance did Joseph Lister propose as an antiseptic wound treatment in 1865?
  • Carbolic Acid
  • Formic Acid
  • Lysergic Acid
  • Sulphuric Acid
Q.5
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
Q.6
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
Q.7
James Young Simpson was a pioneer in Edinburgh of anesthetics. Which substance did he reveal as an extremely effective anesthetic?
  • Chorophyll
  • Chloroform
  • Mercury
  • Liquid Hydrogen
Q.8
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
Q.9
Pasteur opened his institute in For which of the following diseases did he develop a vaccine?
  • Anthrax
  • Ebola
  • Typhoid
  • Typhus
Q.10
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
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