Question 1
8 marksQ2 Explain the significance
Explain the significance of the work of William Harvey.
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Question 2
8 marksQ3 Explain two ways they were similar
Explain two ways in which the Black Death of 1348 and the Great Plague of 1665 were similar.
Question 3
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 4
8 marksStudy Source A below, then answer the question.
Source A: From a pamphlet published in London in 1806 by a doctor who earned much of his income from inoculating patients against smallpox. It was written to persuade parents not to accept the new vaccination.
Written for practice: not a real historical source.
Eight years have passed since the gentleman of Gloucestershire told us that matter taken from a cow's udder will guard a child against the smallpox. He cannot tell us how it works, only that it does. I have heard of children vaccinated who took the smallpox within the year, and of others left covered in sores from the beast's disease. Inoculation with the smallpox itself has protected the families of this city for generations, and is carried out by respectable men. Yet Parliament has handed this man £10,000 of the public's money. Let no parent risk putting the filth of an animal into a healthy child.
Q1 How useful is the source
How useful is Source A to an historian studying opposition to vaccination in the early nineteenth century?
Explain your answer using Source A and your contextual knowledge.