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GCSE History — Module 1: Medicine through time

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Subject

History

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The Ancient Greek doctor who developed the Theory of the Four Humours was…
- Galen
- Hippocrates
- Jenner
- Pasteur
Sample answer: Hippocrates
Explanation: Hippocrates developed the Four Humours theory.
The idea that the body contains four fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile) is the theory of the four…
- elements
- humours
- germs
- vaccines
Sample answer: humours
Explanation: The four humours were thought to need balancing.
Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine, against…
- cholera
- smallpox
- plague
- measles
Sample answer: smallpox
Explanation: Jenner created a smallpox vaccine in 1796.
Jenner’s vaccine used material from a milder, similar disease called…
- cowpox
- chickenpox
- rabies
- flu
Sample answer: cowpox
Explanation: He used cowpox to protect against smallpox.
Which scientist developed Germ Theory — that microbes cause disease?
- Robert Koch
- Louis Pasteur
- Joseph Lister
- John Snow
Sample answer: Louis Pasteur
Explanation: Louis Pasteur published Germ Theory in 1861.

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