1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:- 5M In course of time Fleming become a well-known bacteriologist. When world war I broke out in 1914, he went to Boulogone with professor Wright to attend on the wounded soldiers. There he saw that the soldiers were dying in thousands because their wounds developed infection. Antiseptics were no doubt in use, but they were such as that harmed the body. Lister had discovered that infection was due to the presence of microbes which entered wounds. But beyond this discovery, little was known about the prevention of infection. How were the microbes formed? How were they to be destroyed? These were the questions to which Fleming wanted to find answers. After the war Fleming returned to St. Mary's hospital and started to work on solving the problem. He prepared cultures of various kinds of bacteria in his laboratory and studied them under the micrescope a) When did World War I break out? b) Why did a large number of wounded soldiers die? c) Why were the antiseptics then in use unsatisfactory? d) What had lister discovered? e) What did Fleming do after the war?
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(a) 1914
(b) The soldiers were dying because their wounds developed infection.
(c) Antiseptics harmed the body.
(d)Lister discovered that infection was due to the presence of microbes which entered wounds.
(e)After the war Fleming returned to St. Mary's hospital and started to work on solving the problem. He prepared cultures of various kinds of bacteria in his laboratory and studied them under the microscope.
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