Question 1
8 marksQ2 Explain the significance
Explain the significance of technology for surgery in the 20th century.
Modern Medicine Practice Questions
Question 2
8 marksStudy Source A below, then answer the question.
Source A: From a memorandum written in 1943 by an official at a British government ministry, for the ministers responsible for supplying the armed forces.
Written for practice: not a real historical source.
The Oxford team's work has shown beyond doubt that penicillin cures infected wounds, yet our firms are still growing the mould in milk churns and hospital bedpans. Output here is counted in a few hundred doses a month, and surgeons at the front are rationed to the worst cases. The American companies, backed by their government since they entered the war, are now growing it in great tanks and will shortly make enough for every Allied casualty. We must therefore expect to buy back from America a drug first noticed in a London laboratory. Ministers should press for British production to be expanded before the invasion of Europe.
Q1 How useful is the source
How useful is Source A to an historian studying the development of penicillin?
Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.