Question 1
8 marksQ2 Explain the significance
Explain the significance of the work of Robert Koch.
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Question 2
8 marksQ3 Explain two ways they were similar
Explain two ways in which quackery in the 18th century and everyday medical treatments and remedies in the 19th century were similar.
Question 3
8 marksStudy Source A below, then answer the question.
Source A: From a letter sent in 1849 to a British medical journal by a hospital surgeon who had used chloroform in his own operations. The journal was read by other surgeons and physicians.
Written for practice: not a real historical source.
I have now given chloroform to more than sixty patients, and I grant freely that the screaming which once filled our operating theatres has ceased. Yet I cannot be easy in my mind. Only last year a healthy girl of fifteen died in County Durham within minutes of taking a few drops for the drawing of a toenail. We cannot measure the dose with any certainty, and the strongest patients seem to be in the greatest danger. Worse, now that we may take our time, my colleagues cut deeper into the body, and a greater number of their patients are carried off afterwards by infection of the wound.
Q1 How useful is the source
How useful is Source A to an historian studying the use of anaesthetics in surgery in the 19th century?
Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.