Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) · History (1HI0)

Medicine in Britain, c1250–present: Practice Questions

4 multiple-choice questions marked as you go, and 3 written questions with worked solutions. All on Medicine in Britain, c1250–present.

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Question 1

1 mark

In medieval England (c.1250–c.1500), what was the common purpose of the medical procedures known as bloodletting and purging?

Question 2

1 mark

In the nineteenth century, what was the primary contribution of Joseph Lister to the development of surgery in Britain?

Question 3

1 mark

Which statement best describes the shift in government action regarding public health between the 1848 Public Health Act and the 1875 Public Health Act?

Question 4

1 mark

Which nineteenth-century individual is credited with discovering the first vaccine, which was developed to prevent smallpox?

Question 5

2 marks

Identify one supernatural or religious explanation for the cause of disease used in medieval England during the period c1250–c1500.

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Question 6

4 marks

Explain one way in which the Public Health Act of 1875 represented a change in the government's approach to the prevention of disease in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Question 7

6 marks

Assess the significance of the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, Florey, and Chain. How did it change the treatment of infections compared to the earlier use of 'magic bullets'?

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