Edexcel GCSE History Medicine Through Time / Key Questions with 100% Correct Answers.
Louis Pasteur - Answer: Theory of pasteurisation. Notices that microorganisms were causing the alcohol to go sour. Germ theory.Koch - Answer: Studied Pasteur's theories and discovered that you could grow microorganisms successfully on agar jelly. He discovered the microorganisms in Anthrax (sheep) and then later discovered the microorganisms causing tuberculosis and cholera.Edward Jenner - Answer: Noticed that the milkmaids were not catching small pox because they had got cow pox from the cows. Invented the vaccination where he would inject people with cow pox which prevented them getting small pox which was much worse.
Hippocrates - Answer: Ancient Greece
- humours
Galen - Answer: Developed the 4 humours- theory of opposites
Church supported ideas Edwin Chadwick - Answer: Wrote a report on the sanitary conditions of the population in 1842.He said the poor lived in horrible conditions which was why they were ill. Pushed the government to pass the 1848 Public Health Act John Snow - Answer: 1854 he mapped all the cholera deaths and was able to trace the outbreak to one pump. He removed the handle of the pump so that it couldn't be used and the outbreak died down. Proved cholera came from water- little impact no germ theory
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