Learn all of these! Flashcards
When was the Treaty of St Germain?
September 1919
What are the three themes comprising the History of Medicine?
Disease and infection, surgery and anatomy, public health.
What was cauterising?
Sealing a wound and stopping it from bleeding by busing red hot iron.
What was Edwin Chadwick’s big discovery?
That high poor rate in some towns resulted from some people being too unwell to work due to poor living conditions.
What does the word Anschluss mean?
Uniting Germany and Austria
What are the years of the Renaissance?
1400-1750
What are alternative names for the industrial period?
The nineteenth century and the industrial revolution.
True/false: people understood disease better than they had done in 1348 when the Great Plague returned in 1665?
False
What is an epidemic?
A disease which spreads widely, harms/kills lots of people and is very difficult to stop.
What were some of the things that Wilson wanted in his fourteen points?
No secret treaties, disarmament, self determination in the Austro-Hungarian and Turkish Empires, creation of an independent Poland, creation of the League of Nations.
What idea of Galen’s did Harvey prove wrong?
That blood was made in the liver to replace that which was burnt up by the body.
How can the word LAMB help you remember about the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
L=land, A=army, M=money, B=blame
Why was Galen so popular with the Christian church?
He taught his students that the human body fitted together in a well designed whole. This suggested that a greater being (God) had designed the human body. That’s why Christians liked him.
What was the book published by Vesalius called?
The Fabric of the Human Body.
In what year was the Dollfus affair?
1934
In what month and year and was the Paris Peace conference?
Jan 1919
When was Guy’s hospital founded and what was different about it?
- Different because founded by a local businessman, Thomas Guy, and not the Christian church.
What has Versailles got to do with the Paris Peace Conference?
It was where the Paris Peace conference took place.
What military forces was Germany allowed in the Treaty of Versailles?
Only 6 ships in the navy and no submarines. Only 100,000 soldiers in the army, conscription not allowed and no tanks. No airforce allowed either.
What invention of 1451 was as important to communications as the internet in modern times?
The printing press.
What was the Christian attitude to dissection in the Middle Ages?
It was not allowed at first. Later, it was allowed in medical schools but under strictly controlled conditions.
What did Woodrow Wilson want from the Paris Peace Conference?
Creation of the League of Nations, not to be too hard on Germany, self-determination, freedom of the seas, the fourteen points.
What important anatomical discovery did Herophilus make at Alexandria?
The brain controls the body.
In what year and period did Joseph Lister publish details of carbolic spray?
1867 - industrial
How did the League use trade sanctions to try to solve the Abyssinia Crisis?
Italy and Abyssinia were both banned from buying weapons. Italy however was able to continue buying oil, steel, coal and iron.
What is disease and infection the story of?
The story of what people throughout History believed made them unwell and how they tried to treat illnesses.
What was the natural explanation of disease in the pre-historic period?
There wasn’t one
Why might someone trying to avoid the Black Death sit in a sewer?
Because the smell there would be worse than the bad smells that they thought would bring the Black Death.
How can the word BRAT help you remember about the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
B= blame, R = reparations, A= army, T=territory
In what year and period did Joseph Bazalgette begin building London’s underground sewer system?
1858 - industrial
What is public health the story of?
The story of what the government in any time period did to improve the health of its people.
When did Louis Pasteur publish Germ Theory?
1861
What would a doctor find that was useful in the Canon of Medicine by Avicenna?
The medical properties of 760 different drugs and chapters on medical problems such as anorexia and obesity.
In what year and period did James Simpson discover the anaesthetic properties of chloroform?
1847 - industrial
How do the letters PTMM help you remember the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany?
P=pride, T=territory, M=money, M=military strength.
What is an epidemic?
A disease which spreads widely, harms/kills lots of people and is very difficult to stop.
What was not allowed in the Rhineland and what was this called?
No troops, weapons or fortifications. This is called being demilitarised.
Why was Anschluss not achieved in 1934?
The Austrian Army supported the (anti-Nazi) government plus Mussolini moved Italian troops to the Austrian border and threatened to invade if Hitler didn’t back off.
Why did some people oppose Edward Jenner’s vaccination?
They were worried about having animal matter injected into them.
What was forbidden between Germany and Austria in the Treaty of Versailles (spelt correctly)?
Anschluss
-What disease did Pasteur first use his vaccination ideas to treat a human for?
Rabies.
What did Rhazes achieve?
The first accurate descriptions of measles and smallpox.
Who were the Big 3?
Clemenceau of France, Lloyd George of Britain, WIlson of the USA.
Define natural explanations of disease.
Explanations based on physical evidence, observation and scientific deduction (even if the science is wrong).
What did Harvey develop to help him prove how blood circulated around the body?
Think rods that could be pushed into veins to prove the direction of blood flow.
Who were Schuschnigg and Seyss-Inquart?
The final two chancellors of Austria before Anschluss was acheived.
What sort of pictures would you have found in Vesalius’ book?
Detailed drawings of the human body.
Who would you go to for treatment in Pre-historic times.
The medicine man or shaman.
When during the Egyptian period was the library at Alexandria opened?
It wasn’t. It was built in the Greek period.
