Industrial medicine Flashcards
In what year did Jenner develop the smallpox vaccination?
1796
What method of preventing disease did vaccination improve upon?
Antibiotics
What disease did Jenner inject James Phipps with to prevent him getting smallpox?
Cowpox
How many more experiments did Jenner carry out?
23
Give 2 reasons why Jenner faced opposition
Religion and doctors were making money
In what year did the british government make the vaccination compulsory?
1852
Which theory did the GT prove wrong in 1861?
Spontaneous generation
What job did pastuer do and in which country?
French chemist
In what year did koch prove that specific germs cause specific diseases?
1875
Name 3 germs Koch discovered
Anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera
Name 3 vaccines that pasteur developed
Cholera, anthrax and rabbies
What year did Nightingale go out to the crimea
1854
What changes did Nightingale make to the wards in the crimea?
Better ventillation, cleanliness and fresh clothes
What were the names of FN’s 2 books that turned nursing into a profession?
Notes on hospitals and notes on nursing
By 1901 there were 68000 trained nurses and in 1850 there were none. Trrue or false?
True