Medicine - Industrial Peg Test Flashcards
In what year did Jenner develop the smallpox vaccine?
1790s
What method of preventing disease did vaccination improve upon?
Innoculation
What disease did Jenner inject James Phipps with to prevent him from getting smallpox?
Cowpox
How many more experiments did he carry out?
23
Give 2 reasons he faced opposition?
He couldn’t explain it and doctors were making money from innoculations
In what year did the British government make vaccinations compulsory?
1850s
Which theory did the germ theory disprove in 1861?
Spontaneous generation
What job did Pasteur do and in which country?
French chemist
In what year did Koch prove that specific germs cause specific diseases?
1870s
Name 3 germs Koch discovered
Cholera
Anthrax
TB
Name 3 vaccines Pasteur developed
Chicken cholera
Anthrax
Rabies
In what year did Nightingale go out to the Crimea War?
1850s
What changes did she make to the wards in Crimea?
1 man per bed and air circulation
What were the names of her two books that turned nursing into a profession?
Notes on Nursing
Notes on Hospitals
By 1901 there were 68,000 trained nurses and in 1850 there had been none. True or False?
True
What attitude did the government have ion the period?
Laisse fiar
In what year did Cholera hit England?
1830s
Who wrote the report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Classes?
Chadwick
When was the 1st Public Health Act and what was wrong with it?
1840s and wasn’t enforced
What did the 1st Public Heath Act recommend?
Local board of health
Who discovered what was causing Cholera in Broad Street and in what year?
Snow in 1850s
Who built London’s sewer system?
Bazelgette
When was the great stink?
1850s
In what year were some men given the right to vote?
1860s
When was the 2nd Public Health Act passed and how was it different?
1870s and enforced
