KO Industrial Medicine Flashcards
When was the Industrial Medicine period?
18th and 19th century
What significant changes happened during this time?
Population, work, transport and science
Who created the vaccination for smallpox?
When?
Jenner
1798
Who discovered that Chloroform was an anaesthetic?
When?
Simpson
1847
Who discovered the vaccination for Cholera?
When?
Snow
1854
Who made developments of nursing and hospitals?
When?
Nightingale
1850’s
Pasteur developed what theory?
When?
Germ Theory and vaccinations
1861
Who created Carbolic spray for use as an anti-septic?
When?
Lister
1867
When was the Second Public Health Act created?
1875
Who discovered bacteriology?
When?
Koch
1882
Where did most people live?
What were the conditions like?
What did this mean?
Town
Crowed and filthy
More epidemics
What did the government in 1800 believe? If you got ill whose fault was it? What was the Parliament in 1900 doing? What happened in 1867? What happened to the population in 1884? What did politicians have to do to gain votes?
That they shouldn’t interfere in people’s lives
Yours
Making laws to improve people’s health and forcing change
Working men got the vote
It increased
They had to make changes
Developments in steel making helped produce what that didn’t break?
Improvements in glass making did what?
Engineering projects were developed to do what?
A thin syringe needle
Led to better microscope lenses and thermometers
Build sewers and water pipes under city streets
What allowed doctors to travel and attend conferences?
What did scientific journals do?
Trains
Helped spread detailed accounts of new medical methods worldwide
What is Miasma?
‘Bad Air’
