Brambletye School Year 7
Visit to the Science Museum
WORKSHEETS
 

 

 
AGEING POPULATION:

 

1. What is the most common disease of the elderly?

2. What is senile dementia?

 

Anaesthetic:

1.Who first used anaesthetic and when did he die?

2. What was the job of the man who first used anaesthetic at Oxford?

 

 Cancer:

 Fill in the underlined blanks

 Tumours, or ________have been described in medical ________ since

 

______. Some ________, cancers were known to _______ sometimes

 

rapidly to other parts of the body and only stopping with the _______ of

 

the person.

 

 

Dentistry:

1.  There were three types of dental chairs, "the Hariss," and "the Morrison," name the third chair?

 

2. When was the first toothpaste made?

 

 

  1. When was the first toothbrush made?
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  3. The breakthrough of the foot-treadle was in 1871, it was accomplished by an American, what was his name?
 
 
Medical History
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Medical History
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