Infustrial Medicine Flashcards
Population growth in industrial era
1801- 16.3 million
1901- 41.6 million
Pollution
Coal everywhere
Anti contagists
Disease was from the environment
Clean to remove disease
Examples
Florence Nightingale
William Farr
James Simpson
Contagionists
Diseases were caught from ill people
Examples
John Simpson
Thomas Wells
( one of the first people in Britain to suggest illnesses came from a non chemical cause of contact)
Louis Pasteur
Development of belief behind cause of disease
17th century- misma
18th century- spontaneous generation
1861- germ theory
1865- lister and anti septics
1891- specificity
1928- penicillin
Koch
German
Stained bacteria and put it under microscope
Found bacteria that causes TB in 1882.
1883-4 ones that cause cholera
Found causes of phnuemonia, Plauge, tetanus
Found agar plates
Won a Nobel prize in 1905
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology
Germ theory
Vaccines ( rabies and chicken cholera )
Built on Jenners work.
He invented pasteurisation
Established link between Germs and disease
He descovered if you cut off air from wine then it won’t go off
Paul Erlich
Student of Koch
Won a Nobel prize in 1908
Descovered salavasan 606 ( developed in 1910 ) a treatment for a big STD at the time ( syphilis )
Used Koch’s methods with staining to find blood cells.
Worked on immunity
Worked on majic bullets ( chemo )
Lister
Deaths in surgery went from 30%->15%
Carbolic acid and anti septic surgery
Tested on 13 year old Jamie Greenlees
Many did not accept theories. Lister still didn’t know why. Painful to use.
We use it now
Hospitals
They were big
In London there was 4,000 beds
Some made after 1867 poor law, with local tax money
Uses anti and aneseptics
Run by doctors
Government tan
Manchester slums
Cholera
River for all water
Chaos
SMOG
Factories
Overcrowding
Immagration for work
Urbanisation
People took turns with beds in houses
Cholera 1831
Killed 50,000 people
Misma theroy from dead animals everywhere
Cholera 1837-38
In 1839 government asked Chadwick to find out what was wrong
Chadwick report -
found conditions were poor,
10,000 copies made and it was given to writers and anyone who has influence
He said miasma caused poor health and streets must be clean and sort out housing.
Gov pressured.
They still went with lazzes faire
Public health act 1848
Cholera in 40s changed gov mind
Councils are allowed to clean their streets ( not mandatory )
By 1853 103 towns had a board of public health
Cholera 1848
Killed 60,000 people
1854 20,000 died
1854 JOHN SNOW