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Public health- individuals
When did the mayor of coventry proclaim that every person had to clean the street in front of their house?
1421
Public health- individuals
How much did the mayor of coventry fine for not cleaning outside your house?
12 p
Public health- individuals
How many sewers did Joseph Bazalgette build?
1 million
Public health- individuals
How long were Joseph bazalgettes sewers and how much sewage did they remove?
420 million gallons per day
83 miles
Public health- individuals
When did Joseph Bazalgette begin building his sewers?
1858
Public health- individuals
When did smallpox vaccines become free for all infants?
1840
Public health- individuals
When did smallpox vaccines become compulsory for everyone?
1853
Public health- individuals
When and how much was Jenner given to continue his work?
£10,000
1802
Public health- individuals
When was the beverage report written?
1942
Public health- individuals
How many copies did the Beverage report sell?
100,000
Public health- Government
During the Black Death, when did king Edward III order people to clean streets?
1348
Public health- Government
When were the liberal reforms introduced?
1906
Public health- Government
What did the liberal reforms introduce?
Pensions, free school meals, national insurance
Public health - Government
When was the NHS created?
1948
Public health- Government
How much did life expectancy increase by after the NHS?
66-83 for women
64-79 for men
Public health- Government
During the great plague when did the mayor of london lock city gates?
June 1665
Public health- Government
During the great plague how long were people quarantined for?
40 days
Public health- Government
When was the sanitary act that made local governments responsible for public health?
1866
Public health- Government
When was the public health act introduced?
1875
Public health- Science
How many hospitals did Bagdad have by 1000?
5
Public health- Science
What was the name of Jenners book, written in 1798?
“An inquiry into the causes and effects of cowpox”
Public health- Science
When did John snow close water pumps in broad street?
1854
Public health- Science
How many people died from cholera leading to Snow closing water taps?
700 people
Surgery - Warfare
What war did John Arderne work in?
100 years war
Surgery - Warfare
What did Arderne create during the 100 year war to reduce cauterisation
?
Ointment of hemlock, opium and henbane
Surgery - Warfare
What war did Pare work in?
Italian war
Surgery - Warfare
Who invented crow beak clamp?
Pare
Surgery - Warfare
How much did florence nightingale cut the death rate from infection by during the Crimean war?
40% to 2%
Surgery - Warfare
When was the first blood bank set up for casualties?
1915
Surgery - Warfare
Compared from 1914 to 1916 how many people with broken femurs died?
1914 - 80%
1916 - 20%
Surgery - Warfare
How many donors for blood transfusions were there in WW2?
700,000
Surgery - Communication
What book did Vesalius publish which explained how the body worked?
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Surgery - Communication
What book did Hunter publish?
The natural history of teeth
Surgery - Communication
When did Pasteur publish his book on germ theory?
1861
Surgery - Communication
Who did Pateurs’s work inspire which lead to him using carboxylic acid as an antiseptic?
Lister
Surgery - Communication
When was MIR scanning introduced by the NHS?
1987
Surgery - Individuals
Who was Abulcasis?
Muslim surgeon who introduced many new ideas that were later brought to Europe
Surgery - Individuals
Why was Da Vinci significant?
Drew many scientific drawings that helped understand medicine eg the wound man
Surgery - Individuals
Why was John Hunter important?
Known for experimental surgery
1785 - aneurism surgery
Surgery - Individuals
What did James Simpson do?
First use of anaesthetic properly.
Used chloroform on queen vic in 1853
Surgery - Individuals
What did Lister do?
Introduced antiseptic surgery. Used carbolic acid (machine invented 1871). Death rates fell from 46% to 15% in 3 years
Surgery - Individuals
What did Chamberland do?
Invented steam sterilisier in 1881 to provide an aseptic environment.
Surgery - Individuals
How much did penicillin reduce death rate among soldiers by in WW2?
15%
Surgery - Individuals
When was the first heart transplant?
1967 by Barnard
TOD - Individuals
How did Thomas Sydenham treat Malaria?
Chinchona bark
TOD - Individuals
When did Edward Jenner begin studying cowpox?
1796 - James Phipps
TOD - Individuals
When was streptomycin invented?
1944
TOD - Individuals
When did Pasteur work on chicken cholera?
1880
TOD - Individuals
When was pasteurisation invented?
1862
TOD - Individuals
When did Koch identify bacteria that caused TB?
1882
TOD - Individuals
When did Ehrlich develop Salvarsan 606?
1910
TOD - Individuals
When did James Lind cure scurvy?
1753
TOD - Chance
Did Bald’s Leechbook actually work?
Yes but not for thought reasons
TOD - Religion
How did they treat people in the cholera epidemics of 1848 and 1854?
4 Humors
How many hospitals set up in medieval period?
160
How many villages disappeared because of the Black Death?
1000
What was William Harvey’s book called?
“On the motion of the heart”
When was the first foundling hospital opened?
1741
What did St lukes hospital treat?
Mentally ill patients
How many people died of the Great Plague of 1665?
100,000 (25% of the population)
By September 1665, how many people were dying of the plague every week?
7000
When did thomas Beecham make his first cold powder?
1859
In 1847 Liverpool, how many people shared 1 room?
40
What did Edwin Chadwick help to set up?
The clean party in 1844
In 1831 how many people died of Cholera?
50,000
How many soldiers were treated for skin grafts by Gilles after WW1
5000
How many men were identified with Shellshock?
80,000
How many people died worldwide of Spanish Flu?
20-40 million
How many Britons died of Spanish flu?
280,000
