Medicine Through Time quizzes
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This Medicine Through Time page gathers quizzes on prehistoric medicine, surgery, public health and key dates. With over 100 quizzes, it offers school students practice for GCSE History and teachers ready-made questions to use with students. Pick a quiz and see which topics you want to study next.
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- Prehistoric medicine106
- Ancient medicine271
- Medieval medicine63
- Renaissance medicine184
- Plague epidemics18
- Industrial-era medicine40
- Disease, germ theory and vaccination76
- History of surgery112
- History of public health84
- Antibiotics and magic bullets45
- Modern medicine37
- War and medicine10
- Factors in medical progress30
- Key figures in medicine93
Quizzes
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44 questionsMedicine in Britain, c.1250- Present - QUIZ When did the Black Death first hit Britain?
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67 questionsMedicine Through Times Dates Quiz What year was the Black Death?
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4 questionsMedicine Through Time What is trephining/trepanning?
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20 questionsHistory GCSE Edexcel Medicine Through Time When was Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory published?
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15 questionsAncient Medicine (Medicine through time) The defining characteristic of prehistoric societies is that the people of these societies could not write.
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15 questionsGCSE History: 19th Century Public Health When was the Great Stink
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10 questionsGCSE HISTORY: Surgery Who thought of washing hands?
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21 questionsAcademic Pentathlon, Social Science, Section 1 1. The resource guide uses the definition of health first published by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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13 questionsKey Dates During the Industrial Revolution- Medicine Which is correct?
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10 questionsTesting Your Knowledge Of Elizabeth Blackwell What college did Elizabeth Blackwell attend?
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6 questionsPrehistoric Medicine What is meant by the term Prehistoric?
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4 questionsMedicine through Time History GCSE Quiz What civilisation first introduced signs of medicinal, both natural and supernatural, treatment?
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5 questionsMedicine through time Hippocrates was a doctor
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4 questions4 humours quiz There are 5 humours
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10 questionsHistory of Medicine: Public Health Quiz Who built Roman Public Health facilities?
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10 questionsThinking about health and the people In what year was penicillin discovered?
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15 questionsKey Individuals
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40 questionsIt's what's on the inside that counts What did Claudius Galen theorise that was correct?
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64 questionsHistory: 18th and 19th century Britain What was is that Louie Pasteur saw microbes in?
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28 questionsMedicine What is the Theory of the 4 Humors?
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39 questionsHealth and the people v2 Quiz on Health and the people dates, created by B Jones on 21/04/2018.
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28 questionsHS Study Practice Pre-historic health had a reliance on archeological records.
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19 questionsHistory: Modern Britain
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44 questionsMedicine in Britain, c.1250- Present - QUIZ When did the Black Death first hit Britain?
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10 questionsKey Individuals in MTT What was Galen most famous for ?
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9 questionsSexuality and Disease in India Historiography Quiz What document described the Indian's as 'ignorant'
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26 questionsSurgery What was the first anaesthetic by Humphrey Davy?
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7 questionsTheories of Disease What is a natural theory of disease? Pick 1 or more:
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28 questionsGCSE Medicine in Britain Timeline (1250 - Present) What lasted from 1348-1350?
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7 questionsEarly Modern Public health
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19 questionsMedicine in Britain 1250 - 1500 Rational Belief of the cause of illness
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11 questionsRenaissance England Continuities of beliefs of causes of illness were
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8 questionsHISTORICAL KEY DATES : MEDICINE THROUGH TIME WHEN WAS THE GERM THEORY DISCOVERED ?
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26 questionsMedicine in Britain, c.1250- Industrial Revolution - QUIZ When did the Black Death first hit Britain?
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10 questionsMedicine Through Time: The Arab World What did the Arabs Believe in?
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16 questionsHistory: the Renaissance What does transference mean?
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23 questionshistory medicine through time Who came up with the Theory of the Four Humours ?
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5 questionsMedicine Quiz Galen's ideas of the four humours, involving balancing the four fluids of the body and his ideas of the hum...
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10 questionsHistory of Medicine: Ancient Ideas Quiz What was trepanning?
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6 questionsGeneral History quiz Which Public Health Act was actually compulsory?
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These community-made quizzes ask about periods, people and developments in the history of medicine. Prehistoric Medicine includes questions about how evidence of prehistoric life is found. History of Medicine: Public Health Quiz offers a topic-focused choice, while Testing Your Knowledge Of Elizabeth Blackwell focuses on an individual.
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For questions across several developments, start with History GCSE Edexcel Medicine Through Time. It asks about germ theory, X-rays and the National Health Service. If you want to practice dates, try Medicine Through Times Dates Quiz, which asks when events happened and what happened in particular years.
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Which quiz should I start with?
For a range of questions, start with History GCSE Edexcel Medicine Through Time. It asks about germ theory, X-rays and the National Health Service. For a narrower topic, try Prehistoric Medicine, which includes questions about prehistoric life and the evidence used to study it.
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The collection is mainly suited to school students, and teachers can use the questions as ready-made material. Some quizzes name GCSE History or Edexcel in their titles. Students can practice topics such as surgery, public health, key individuals and dates by choosing a quiz that matches what they are studying.