1848-1860
What idea said that disease was spread by bad smells?
Miasma
Who discovered that carbolic acid could be used as an antiseptic?
Joseph Lister
What other scientist worked at the same time as Pasteur and created lots of competition between the two of them?
Robert Koch
What did the Liberal government introduce for old people in 1908?
Pensions
Who went on holiday in 1928, leaving their staphylococcus cultures to grow and create penicillin in his lab?
Alexander Fleming
What idea said that bacteria and infection generated itself from a wound?
Spontaneous generation
What did the French Academic of Science challenge scientists to do in 1860?
Disprove spontaneous generation
What did the 1876 River Pollution Act make illegal?
Factories putting their waste into the rivers
When did the Liberal Party win an election?
1906
Who wrote a report on the 'giant evils' in society which led to the creation of the NHS?
William Beveridge
Who discovered chloroform?
James Simpson
Who came up with the new sewer system in London?
Joseph Bazalgette
What did Lister discover could be used to help with blood loss (without causing infection) in 1875-1905?
Catgut ligatures
What was created in WW1 to help broken bones set better (particularly broken legs)?
Thomas Splint
Who was in charge of the Guinea Pig Club?
Archibald McIndoe
Who wrote The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population?
Edwin Chadwick
What idea did the government believe in in 1860-75 that meant they did not get that involved in public health?
Laissez faire
In what year did Pasteur come up with the anthrax vaccine?
1881
When was mustard gas first used?
1917
What does QAIMNS stand for?
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
How many patients were at Scutari when Nightingale arrived?
10,000
In what year was the Nightingale School set up?
1860
Who cured diptheria?
Emil von Behring
What does RAP stand for (in relation to trenches in WW1)
Where did Florey travel in 1943 to test penicillin on wounded soldiers?
North Africa