Factors In Medicine Through Time Flashcards
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What are the factors that affect the development of medicine
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Communication - printing press Religion Science and technology Government Warfare Chance
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How did war affect development of medicine
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Pare Penicillin Blood transfusions Pasteur v koch Evacuation of children X rays ww1 NHS caused by ww2 impact Work of surgeons
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How did religion affect medicine
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Supernatural treatments Mummification Praying to gods Medical church - controlled Monasteries - health and hospitals Galen - follows Galen (god creator) Opposition to anaesthetics - pain is good for healing Oppose Edward Jenner
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Communication affecting medicine
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Clinical observation by Hipócrates looks at symptoms
Medical books
Printing press 1546
Development of penicillin
Listen and carbolic spray - read work of Pasteur on germ theory
Modern technology
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Science and tech affecting technology
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Theory of 4 humours by Hipócrates Vesalius artists made anatomical drawings Renaissance - pumps and clocks Pasteur - germ theory Listen and carbolic spray Blood transfusion X-rays Robert Koch Magic bullets
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Chance affecting medicine
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Pare ran out of boiling oil made ointment
Pasteur found germ by mistake
Simpson disciver chloroform by inhaling too much of it
Alexander Fleming foujd some mound had killed bacteria surrounding it
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Government affect medicine
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Roman public health scheme Solutions to plague with Red Cross and mass pillings Public health measures NHS into Penicillin development
