INDUSTRIAL Flashcards
How did industrial progress?
Technology - telephone / radio / trains
British Empire - supplies
Knowledge - germ theory
Treatments - penicillin
Who discovered penicillin ?
Alexander Fleming
Who created penicillin ?
Florey and Chain
What did Louis Pasteur do ?
Discovered germ theory
Discovered how vaccinations work
Define the Industrial method - Aseptic surgery
Method designed to prevent contamination from microorganisms during surgery
What did Karl do?
Discover blood groups - blood transfusion
blood storage kept clotting until discovered sodium citrate stops this
How did the first world war affect medicine ?
Increase use of X-ray
Use of plastic surgery
Surgery practise
When was the Great stink ?
1858
What was the welfare state ?
system by which the government looks after those who can’t help themselves (children/sick/unemployed)
Where could you go if you lost your job?
The workhouse
What was national insurance ?
Insurance for medical care, needed a job so if you were unemployed you couldn’t pay your ‘stamp’
