8. Read the passage given below and answer questions
This story is about a man whose work has helped millions of people and animals to escape a great deal of pain. He was Doctor James Simpson. Dr Simpson's hospital duties included. assisting doctors during operations. On these occasions, he would watch patients scream in unbearable pain. In those days, during surgical operations the patients were tied to the operation table with strong straps to prevent them from struggling.
'Is there nothing that will help patients feel no pain?' Dr Simpson thought. 'I must search for a pain-killer until I find one.' And the more operations he saw, the more determined he became. Simpson had to carry out two kinds of tasks. First, he had to find a chemical that could lessen or kill pain when the operation took place. Then, he had to be sure that the pain-killer would not kill the patient as well, or harm the patient's health. So, he decided to experiment on himself and on some friends who volunteered to help.
One day, Simpson showed his friends a new chemical called chloroform, a liquid that gave off vapours. Simpson gathered as much information as he could about this liquid and decided to test it. He and two friends began to inhale it. When they had inhaled it for some time, the three men became unconscious. It was as if they were fast asleep. They saw nothing, heard nothing and felt nothing, not even the passing of time. It was Simpson who came to himself first. The chloroform had done him no harm at all and he was happy and excited about this. But he had to wait and see what happened to his friends. Soon they too
felt quite well. Now Simpson knew how to make operations completely painless. If a patient inhaled the right quantity of chloroform vapour before an operation, he knew nothing about what the surgeon was doing. Then, the surgeon could work on any part of the patient's body without giving her or him any pain whatever. In other words, Simpson had discovered that chloroform was an 'anaesthetic'.
Then, in 1853, he got a rare opportunity to prove that he was right. He had been made one of the Queen's doctors in the same year in which he tested chloroform on himself. In 1853, Queen Victoria allowed the doctors to give her chloroform. One of the three royal surgeons gave it to her before an operation and the Queen later thanked Simpson for the drug that had taken away her pain. She congratulated him on his remarkable achievement and, in 1866, gave Simpson the title 'Sir'
8.1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations,wherever necessary (minimum 4) supply an appropriate title to it- (5)
8.2 Write a summary of the given passage in 80-100 words. (3)
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This story is about a man whose work has helped millions of people and animals to escape a great deal of pain. He was Doctor James Simpson. Dr Simpson's hospital duties included. assisting doctors during operations. On these occasions, he would watch patients scream in unbearable pain. In those days, during surgical operations the patients were tied to the operation table with strong straps to prevent them from struggling.
'Is there nothing that will help patients feel no pain?' Dr Simpson thought. 'I must search for a pain-killer until I find one.' And the more operations he saw, the more determined he became. Simpson had to carry out two kinds of tasks. First, he had to find a chemical that could lessen or kill pain when the operation took place. Then, he had to be sure that the pain-killer would not kill the patient as well, or harm the patient's health. So, he decided to experiment on himself and on some friends who volunteered to help.
One day, Simpson showed his friends a new chemical called chloroform, a liquid that gave off vapours. Simpson gathered as much information as he could about this liquid and decided to test it. He and two friends began to inhale it. When they had inhaled it for some time, the three men became unconscious. It was as if they were fast asleep. They saw nothing, heard nothing and felt nothing, not even the passing of time. It was Simpson who came to himself first. The chloroform had done him no harm at all and he was happy and excited about this. But he had to wait and see what happened to his friends. Soon they too
felt quite well. Now Simpson knew how to make operations completely painless. If a patient inhaled the right quantity of chloroform vapour before an operation, he knew nothing about what the surgeon was doing. Then, the surgeon could work on any part of the patient's body without giving her or him any pain whatever. In other words, Simpson had discovered that chloroform was an 'anaesthetic'.
Then, in 1853, he got a rare opportunity to prove that he was right. He had been made one of the Queen's doctors in the same year in which he tested chloroform on himself. In 1853, Queen Victoria allowed the doctors to give her chloroform. One of the three royal surgeons gave it to her before an operation and the Queen later thanked Simpson for the drug that had taken away her pain. She congratulated him on his remarkable achievement and, in 1866, gave Simpson the title 'Sir'
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not interested to read that much of big passage at this mid night (￣.￣)
This story is about a man whose work has helped millions of people and animals to escape a great deal of pain. He was Doctor James Simpson. Dr Simpson's hospital duties included. assisting doctors during operations. On these occasions, he would watch patients scream in unbearable pain. In those days, during surgical operations the patients were tied to the operation table with strong straps to prevent them from struggling.'Is there nothing that will help patients feel no pain?' Dr Simpson thought. 'I must search for a pain-killer until I find one.' And the more operations he saw, the more determined he became. Simpson had to carry out two kinds of tasks. First, he had to find a chemical that could lessen or kill pain when the operation took place. Then, he had to be sure that the pain-killer would not kill the patient as well, or harm the patient's health. So, he decided to experiment on himself and on some friends who volunteered to help.One day, Simpson showed his friends a new chemical called chloroform, a liquid that gave off vapours. Simpson gathered as much information as he could about this liquid and decided to test it. He and two friends began to inhale it. When they had inhaled it for some time, the three men became unconscious. It was as if they were fast asleep. They saw nothing, heard nothing and felt nothing, not even the passing of time. It was Simpson who came to himself first. The chloroform had done him no harm at all and he was happy and excited about this. But he had to wait and see what happened to his friends. Soon they too felt quite well. Now Simpson knew how to make operations completely painless. If a patient inhaled the right quantity of chloroform vapour before an operation, he knew nothing about what the surgeon was doing. Then, the surgeon could work on any part of the patient's body without giving her or him any pain whatever. In other words, Simpson had discovered that chloroform was an 'anaesthetic'.
felt quite well. Now Simpson knew how to make operations completely painless. If a patient inhaled the right quantity of chloroform vapour before an operation, he knew nothing about what the surgeon was doing. Then, the surgeon could work on any part of the patient's body without giving her or him any pain whatever. In other words, Simpson had discovered that chloroform was an 'anaesthetic'.Then, in 1853, he got a rare opportunity to prove that he was right. He had been made one of the Queen's doctors in the same year in which he tested chloroform on himself. In 1853, Queen Victoria allowed the doctors to give her chloroform. One of the three royal surgeons gave it to her before an operation and the Queen later thanked Simpson for the drug that had taken away her pain. She congratulated him on his remarkable achievement and, in 1866, gave Simpson the title 'Sir'