Industrial Flashcards
When was the industrial time period?
1700-1900
Key events/ discoveries during the industrial time period?
Pasteur’s germ theory - 1860
Listers carbolic acid - 1865
Public health act - 1848
Robert koch’s microbes - 1876
Mass industrialisation people moved to cities in very cramped conditions
What did Robert Koch discover with his microbes?
Anthrax
Septicaemia
tuberculosis
Cholera
Who were key individuals and what they discovered or did during the industrial time period?
Hunter - Tied arteries together
Pasteur - Germ theory
Lister - Carbolic acid (antiseptic)
Koch - different bacteria caused different diseases and that there is more than one type of bacteria
Nightingale - Helped solders in the Crimean war
Simpson - chloroform
Jenner - smallpox vaccine
Chadwick - Reformer and used statistics and linked them with poverty
Snow - Discovered cholera was caused by dirty water not miasma
Ideas on the causes of disease during the industrial time period?
Germ theory
Miasma - slowly started getting proved wrong
Ideas on prevention of disease during the industrial time period?
Germ theory- Clean hospitals, clean homes and wash hands (basic hygiene)
Vaccines - Smallpox vaccine
What was public health like during the industrial time period?
No clean water - caused cholera
Living conditions - crammed and it was easy to spread disease
Public health act - some funding was given to local councils but it was up to the councils if they wanted to do it
Laissez-Fare - government approach to do nothing about public health
What was surgery like in the industrial time period?
Blood loss - Slightly improved because of the knowledge of arteries
Infection - Pasteur’s germ theory and listers carbolic acid (antiseptic)
Pain - chloroform made patients unconscious during surgery
Factors during the industrial time period?
Individuals
Science and technology
