M medicine through time Flashcards
Medieval Britain
1250-1500
The Renaissance
1500-1700
The Industrial Period
1700-1900
The Modern World
1900-now
Medieval Britain: Causes
- God punishing sins
- Miasma
- 4 humours out of balance
Medieval Britain: Preventions and treatments
- Bleeding (leeches)
- Purging (Camomile)
- Flagellation
- Basic herbs (onion)
Medieval Britain: Hospital and care
Monasteries
Medieval Britain: Physicians, apocrathies and barber surgeons
- Physicians would diagnose
- Barber surgeons uneducated
Renaissance: Causes
- four humours went out of fashion
- theory of contagion 1541
Renaissance: Preventions and treatments
- Exotic herbs (coffee and cinchona bark)
- Chemical chemistry
- Quarantine and avoidance
Renaissance: Hospital and care
Pest houses
Renaissance: Physicians, apocrathies and barber surgeons
- Apocrathies based in hospitals
- John Hunter’s teaching
- Barber surgeons licenced
Industrial period: causes
Spontaneous generations
Germ theory 1861
Industrial period: Preventions and treatments
Vaccinations, Change of scenery innoculation
Industrial period: hospitals and care
Pavillion hospitals, professional nurses
Industrial period: Improvements in surgery
chloroform, carbolics spray