AQA GCSE history - health and the people

Gangrene, meningitis, syphilis and pneumonia

What can penicillin cure?

Staphylococci

What bacteria was Alexander Fleming growing?

1945

When did Fleming receive the Nobel Prize for medicine?

Florey and Chain

What were the names of the people who mass produced penicillin?

Streptomycin in 1944 and tetracycline in 1953

What other antibiotics were produced due to the discovery of penicillin?

1962(12 years later)

When did the manufacturer apologise about thalidomide?

Holistic medicine

What is alternative medicine also known as?

Hydrotherapy, aromatherapy, hypnotherapy, acupuncture and traditional herbal medicine

Name a type of alternative medicine?

20 miles

How far away were WW1 hospitals from the front?

Casualty Clearing Stations

Where were patients given immediate treatment in WW1?

Occupational therapy

How was shell shock treated?

20%-80%

How much did the survival rate increase with the Thomas splint(percentage)?

Wilhelm Roentgen

Who created x rays?

1901

When did Landsteiner discover blood groups?

Anti-coagulant

What stops blood going off?

90%

How much of the population was deemed unfit to fight in the Boer war?

35%

What percentage of London did Charles Booth realise was living in poverty?

50%

What percentage of York was living in poverty according to Seebohm Rowntree?

compulsory training for midwives

What reform was introduced in 1902?

Old age pensions of 5 shillings a week for those over 70

What reform was introduced in 1906?

Want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness

What were the five evils Beveridge wanted to fight?

How change was needed(particularly in healthcare)

What was the Beveridge report about?

Clement Attlee(the Labour prime minister)

Who created the welfare state?

A curse on the country

What did Churchill describe the NHS as?

10%

What percentage of doctors were in favour of the NHS?

42% - 81%

What percentage of people lived to 65 before and after the NHS?