Medecine Individuals Own Knowledge Flashcards

Question

Flemming discovwry of penicillin

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Summer 1938 left out Petri dishes Found s mound which no bacteria grew near Spores blew through open window Couldn't investigate further due to lack of funding

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1939 team of Oxford researchers

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8 mice, 4 controls injected with deadly bacteria only 4 died

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19th Feb 1941, first human subject lab ran out of supplies and he died 2 more patients successfully treated August 1942 Fleming treats friend with meningitis

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1941, Florey goes to America to show drug companies 1942 80 million USD loan to 4 companies 1943 production began used in North Africa 1945 2,000,000 doses used per month 13/15% of wounded would have died without it Halved time soils urea spent in hospital

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Nitrous oxides or ether used Dimpson experimenting with different chemicals with Doctors Kieth and Duncan "Under the table in minutes" Then tested on his niece Miss Peterie

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Dosage one girl died from od while removing a toenail Religious objections, "with painful labour you will give birth to children" part of Eve's punishment Didn't reduce fatality rates as more complex and longer operations

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Queens 8th Child, used "that blessed chloroform"

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``` 300 scrubbing brushed 38 nurses "General dealer" Rebuilt part of the hospital Death rate falls from 42% to 2% Royal army medical corps 1898 ```

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``` 200 leaflets and phamphlets "Notes on Nursing "1859 Statistics, "the most important science in the world" Notes on hospitals 1863 Specification and greAt ormond street Nursing school 1860 ```

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1858 medical act only practise if on medical register but needed to graduate Wichita was impossible for women Rejected by Edinburgh and St. Andrews 1865 passed apothecaries exam but prevented from gtaduating Qualified in Paris and put onto the register 1869 1876 act passed allowing women to qualify

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Elizabeth Hogsn 1870 Sophia Jex Blake set up medical school for women 23 educated in first year, recognised in 1877 by London free hospital 318 enrolled 1903 1912 212 women on the register 1871 new hospital for women run by women for women

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1854 epidemic killed 20,000 700 deaths in 10 days Plotted deaths on street map Incidences highest where people drew water from pump Water carried in bottle across London infected people elsewhere Removed the handle

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Two seperate water companies Upstream and filtered vs downstream not filtered 13 times more likely to get cholera Disproved miasma

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1839 report in the sanitary conditions of the labouring poor of Great Britain Varied hugely with class Called for end of laissez fairs Health not the responsibility of the individual

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Further 60,000 die of cholera Local boards of health set up to monitor sewers drainage ect Provided medical officers to "inspect nuisances