Industrial Britain 1700 - 1900 Flashcards
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Causes of disease in Industrial period
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- Enlightenment: People thought for themselves and no longer listened to the church
- Louis Pasteur’s Germ Theory (1861)
- Robert Koch: different microbes caused different diseases
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Treatments of disease in Industrial period
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- James simpson used chloroform as an anaesthetic
- Joseph Lister discovered carbolic acid which could kill infection
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Prevention of disease in industrial period
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- Edward Jenner developed vaccine against smallpox in 1796
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Hospital and care in the industrial period
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- Florence Nightingale was a nurse in the crimean war in 1854
- Hospitals were insanitary and dirty
- Nightingale created good sanitation, good meals and nurses providing care
- Set up a nursing college
- Redesigned hospital wards
- Wrote book “Notes on Nursin
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Improvements in surgery during the Industrial period
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- Anaesthetic helped treat pain
- James simpson discovered Chloroform
- Antiseptic developed to deal with infection
- Joseph Lister used carbolic acid to help clean wounds
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Important institutions in the Industrial period
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- Church was no longer influential
- Government moved from “laissez faire” to be more invested in public’s health
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The fight against Cholera and better government action over public health
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- Government were previously very “laissez faire”
- Government tried to reduce miasma by cleaning the slum and workhouses
- John snow identified that the cholera cases were around certain water pumps
- Government removed infected water pumps
- Government eventually rebuilt the sewage system
