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AQA GCSE History Health and the people c1000 to present overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which theory dominated medieval ideas about the cause of illness?

  2. Why was medieval medicine so slow to change?

  3. Roughly what fraction of England's population did the Black Death kill?

  4. What did Andreas Vesalius contribute during the Renaissance?

  5. What did William Harvey prove?

  6. What did Edward Jenner develop in 1796?

  7. Who published germ theory in 1861?

  8. What did Joseph Lister introduce to surgery from 1865?

  9. What did the 1875 Public Health Act require?

  10. Who discovered penicillin in 1928?

  11. Who mass-produced penicillin during the Second World War?

  12. What was the key feature of the NHS founded in 1948?