KEY QUESTION 3 Flashcards
1
Q
Treatments
A
Making you better from a illness / disease you already have
2
Q
Treatments in the medieval era
A
- herbal remedies
- bleeding
- urine testing
- zodiac charts
3
Q
Quacks
A
Unlicensed traders would be around to sell latest cure
4
Q
Treatments in early modern era
A
- write in English not Latin
- doctrine of signatures (similar to body parts)
- midwifery
- mental illness
5
Q
3 problema of surgery in modern era
A
- pain
- blood loss
- infection
6
Q
What did James Simpson use in 1847?
A
Chloroform
7
Q
What was used as local anesthetic in the 1850s?
A
Cocaine
8
Q
Black period of surgery
A
Without pain surgeons could take their time but this led to higher infection rates and higher death rates
9
Q
What happened in 1847 for surgery?
A
Semmelweis reduces the Death rate from 35% to less than 1%
10
Q
Joseph Lister
A
- used carbolic acid to sterilize operating rooms
- surgical instruments and wound and dressing in carbolic acid
11
Q
When was the first kidney transplant?
A
1952
12
Q
How many heart transplants took place in 2014?
A
181
13
Q
Marie Curie
A
- isolated radium and polonium
- create radiation therapy to treat cancerous cells
- brought about chemo
