Medicine Through Time Killer Facts (not Western Front)

How many books did Galen leave behind?

350

How many ingredients were they in theriaca?

70

How many hospitals were there in 1500?

1100

What percentage of hospitals were controlled by the Church in the Medieval times?

30%

How long did the Black Death take to kill its victims?

3 - 5 days

How many people were being buried in London each day at the peak of the Black Death?

200

How many people did the Balck Death kill?

1.8 - 3 million (30% - 50%)

How many editions of Galen’s work were published in the 16th Century?

590

How many remedies were in Pharmacopoeia Londinensis?

2140

What was used to cure Louis XIV of France of Typhoid and when was this?

Antimony potassium tartrate 1657

How many hospitals were there by 1700?

5

How many litres of blood would Galen’s theory say the blood would have to produce?

1800

What was the peak month of the Great Plague and how many people died per week then?

November 7000

How many Londoners did the Great Plague kill?

100,000 (1 in 5)

How many nurses went with Nightingake to the Crimea?

38

How many wounded were the nurses organised to treat for?

2000

When was the worst smallpox epidemic in London and how many people died?

1796 3548

When was the smallpox epidemic caused by inoculations and how many did it kill?

1837 - 40 35000

How many miles of sewers were built by 1865?

1300

How many fatal cases were within 200m of the Broad Street Pump?

500

How many residents of a workhouse with their own water supply died from Cholera?

5 out of 535

Where was prontosil used to treat puerperal fever and how did the mortality rate change?

Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital 20% - 4.7%

How many hospitals were the government responsible for after founding the NHS?

1143 voluntary 1545 city

What proportion of deaths were caused by infectious diseases in 1900 vs 1990?

25% 1%

Before the vaccination campaign, how many children died of diphtheria each year?

3000

How many have died of diphtheria in the past 20 years?

4

How many cars if polio were there in the 1950s each year?

8000

How many pharmaceutical companies were funded by the US to produce penicillin?

21

How common is lung cancer now?

2nd most common cancer

How many people with lung cancer have smoked?

85%

How many cases of cancer were lung cancer in the 19th Century vs 1918 vs 1927

1% 10% 14%

When did lung cancer peak and with how many deaths?

1973 26000

How much did smoking related deaths cost the NHS by 1985

£165 million

How much did the government earn from tobacco tax by 1985?

£4 billion