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GCSE Medicine Booklet 3 Flashcards

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What was the population size in 1801 and then in 1901?

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16.3 miliion and then 41.6 million

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What did Bentham believe?

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It wasn’t the government’s job to interfere with people’s lives.

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What did Chadwick believe?

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It was the government’s job to interfere with people’s lives.

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What was Louis Pasteur the first to do?

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Establish a link between disease and germs.

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What did Pasteur’s initial research do?

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He argued that micro-organisms caused disease and he developed a vaccine for rabies based on researching chicken cholera.

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What was Pasteur’s nickname?

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The father of micro-biology.

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What was pasteurisation?

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Heating liquids to kill germs e.g. milk.

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What did Koch discover?

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A way of staining bacteria to make it visible under the microscope.

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What germ did Koch discover?

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The bacillus germ in 1891,which caused diptheria, and a serum to treat it in 1894.

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What was Paul Erlich’s major contribution to germ theory?

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Salvarsan 606, in 1910, as a treatment for syphilis.

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What were magic bullets?

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carefully designed drugs designed to target and kill specific germs causing illness.

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What 19th century technological improvements helped medicine?

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Stethoscopes, thermometers, microscopes and X-Ray machines, from 1895.

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What was Laudanum? It was recommended in Mrs Beeton’s book, The Book of Household Managament in 1861.

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90% alcohol and 10% opium.

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When did Aspirin go on sale in Britain?

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1899

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Which chemist opened in the 19th century?

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Boots

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How did mortality rates from surgery change in the 19th century?

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Fell from 40% to 10%

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What gas did Sir Humphrey Davy use to relieve pain in operations?

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Nitrous Oxide - laughing gas

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What gas did Robert Liston use during a leg amputation?

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Ether

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What anaesthetic did James Simpson start using in 1847?

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Chloroform

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Who was a famous user of chloroform?

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Queen Victoria used it during childbirth in 1853.

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What problems were there with 19th century anaesthetics?

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Operations weren’t safer, it was hard to get doses correct, infections still happened, ether could ignite.

22
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What did Joseph Lister discover?

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That germs got into wounds due to dirty hospitals. He sterised operations with carbolic acid and reduced death rates from 46% to 15% in three years. Known as the father of antiseptic surgery.

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What was aseptic surgery invented by Charles Chamberland?

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Germ free environment, steam sterised equipment, staff scrubbed in.

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What did Berkeley Moyniham start using in surgery?

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Rubber gloves.

25
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How many specialist hospitals were there in London by 1860?

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36

26
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How did Florence Nightingale improve hospitals in the Crimean War?

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Cleaned them up and death rate fell from 40% to just 2%

27
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How did she improve nursing after the Crimean War?

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Write the book called Notes on Nursing, set up a nurse training school at St Thomas’ Hospital and wrote Notes on Hospitals in 1863 which explained how to keep hospitals clean.

28
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What was the life expectancy for rich and poor in Bethnal Green , London in 1842?

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Rich 45 and poor 16

29
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What was the child death rate in Manchester in the 1840s?

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57% died before their 5th birthday.

30
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What disease did young chimney sweeps suffer from?

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Scrotal cancer

31
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What disease did young girls in match factories suffer from?

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Phossy Jaw, jaw cancer and brain damage.

32
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Why did parliament have to leave London in 1858?

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The Great Stink caused by the polluted Thames.

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What famous man died of Typhoid in 1861?

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Prince Albert.

34
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What disease, caused by malnutrition, was called the English disease?

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Rickets.

35
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How many people died from cholera in 1831, 1848 and 1854?

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1831 -50000, 1848 - 60,000 and 1854 - 20000

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Who discovered the causes of cholera from an infected water pump in Broad Street, London?

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John Snow

37
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How many people died due to the infected water pump in Broad Street, London?

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In the first 10 days over 700 people died.

38
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How did Snow prove that the water was spreading cholera?

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He removed the water pump handle and the spread of the disease stopped.

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How did Snow’s careful scientific experimentation influence the government?

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The government published the Public Helath Act of 1875 and the Sanitary Act of 1866

40
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What book did Edwin Chadwick write in 1842 which linked poor living conditions with disease?

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Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population

41
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What was the Clean Party?

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A group pushing for the government to improve conditions in towns.

42
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What was the Dirty Party?

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A group pushing for the government to ignore conditions in towns due to costs. They were mainly wealthy tax payers.

43
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Who set up Ragged Schools to help poor children?

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Dr Barnardo

44
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What happened in Ragged Schools?

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Meals provided, evening classes, Sunday school, wood chopping brigade, training as servants, fresh air fund, immigration schemes to provide a new life in Canada or Australia.

45
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What did the 1848 Public Health Act do?

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Created a Central Board of Health, urged local concils to clean up towns, inspected lodgings houses and food quality.

46
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What did Joseph Bazalgette do?

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Built 83 miles of sewers under London which removed 420 million tonnes per day.

47
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What did the 1866 Sanitary Act do?

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made local governemnt responsible for sewers, water and street cleaning.

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What did the 1875 Housing Act do?

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Local government redeveloped slums and knocked down bad housing.

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What did the 1875 Public Health Act do?

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Local councils fored to provide clean water and have health inspectors. Collect rubbish, cover sewers, regulate food and provide street lights.

50
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What did the 1875 Food and Drug Act do?

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Regulated food and medicine to make it safer.

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