From Mystery to Medicine Review
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- Q1Which of these is a detail, NOT a main idea from the story?Some bacteria cause diseases, but we didn't always know thisThe Black Plague occurred in the 14th centuryThe history of medicine goes back thousands of years60s
- Q2What did the Ancient Egyptians use to heal wounds?tree barkmoldy breadwet leavesworms60s
- Q3Why did some Native Americans chew willow tree bark?To clean their teethTo help reduce painTo cure a sore throat60s
- Q4What made Edward Jenner guess that the body developed a way to fight smallpox?Jenner noticed that if someone recovered from the smallpox, they never got the disease againJenner noticed that if someone recovered from the smallpox, they were more likely to get it again60s
- Q5What did Louis Pasteur learn from heating a flask of water?The flask explodedThe bacteria could be killedThe bacteria could not be destroyed60s
- Q6What bacteria did Louis Pasteur inject into healthy animals?penicillinanthraxmold60s
- Q7Why did Louis Pasteur inject healthy animals with bacteria?To prove that animals cannot spread diseaseTo prove that bacteria are what cause diseaseTo see how long the animals would live60s
- Q8Who proved that bacteria, or germs, are what cause diseases and infections?Benjamin FranklinLouis PasteurHippocrates60s
- Q9Surgeons began ______________________ their equipment before they did their operations.throwing awaysterilizinginfecting60s
- Q10True or False: Surgeons began sterilizing their equipment before operations to get rid of germs that might cause infections in their patientsTrueFalse60s
- Q11Edward Jenner discovered that people infected with cowpox could not catch....the Black Plaguea coldsmallpox60s
- Q12William Harvey made the connection between the heart and....penicillinsmallpoxblood circulation60s
- Q13True or False: Penicillin is modern medicine's first antibiotic.TrueFalse60s
- Q14During the time of the Black Plague, death was never far away. A plague is....a storma diseasea ruler60s
- Q15Some wounds get infected and others heal. To be infected means...to be close to a sick personto become well quicklyto have germs present60s