Medicine: Factors

Question 1

War

Answer 1

Florence nightingale
Enables faster development of equipment
Quinine used for malaria treatment
AF & penicillin

Question 2

Superstition and Religion

Answer 2

Flo believe god wanted her to b a nurse
Opposition to anaesthetic from those who thought pain from childbirth was gods will
Henry whitehead used priestly influence
Church stopped any discoveries apart from Galen’s word
Became significantly less important

Question 3

Chance

Answer 3

Salvarsan 606

Almost all made scientifically

Question 4

Government

Answer 4

Laissez-faire slowed progress
Only fixed greatcstink because it affected them
Public health acts
Compulsory vaccination in 1853
All governments concerned about disease but couldn’t fix because weren’t listening to scientists

Question 5

Economy

Answer 5

Industrial revolution unsanitary living conditions

Poverty = lack of education about disease

Question 6

Ideas

Answer 6

Germ Theory
Importance of cleanliness and antiseptics
Got rid of laissez-faire idea

Question 7

Communication

Answer 7

Queen Victoria tells public that chloroform works
Flushing toilets at great exhibition
Brought back ideas on pilgrimages
Germ theory and cholera published
Conditions in Crimea reported so flo goes

Question 8

Science and technology

Answer 8

Better microscopes today see bacteria
Measuring chloroform
Stethoscope thermometer X-ray 
Antiseptics
John snow uses scientific method
Magic bullets

Question 9

Role of the individual

Answer 9

John snow
Florence
Pasteur ehrlich Koch
Lister, Simpson