Medicine-Key Question 3(treatments)

Question 1

What were the treatments in the Middle Ages?

Answer 1

Herbal medicines, bleeding, urine testing to diagnose and then give a treatment, zodiac charts and visiting barber surgeons.

Question 2

What were the treatments in the Early Modern era?

Answer 2

Ladies of the manor books, English books, eating foods like that part of the body, new foods and scientific approaches like recording results.

Question 3

What surgical treatments were there in the Modern era?

Answer 3

In 1847 chloroform was used to reduce pain in birth and Queen Victoria used it which increased popularity. Also local anaesthetic was discovered,

Question 4

What developments were made in antiseptic and aseptic surgery?

Answer 4

Semmelweis reduced death rates to less than 1% by making doctors wash their hands. Joseph Lister used Carbolic acid to kill germs and sterelise operating rooms. Halstead started the idea of wearing gloves.

Question 5

What new types of surgery were there?

Answer 5

In 1952 there was the first kidney transplant and in 1967 there was the first heart transplant. Marie Curie used radiotherapy to target cancer cells and this lead to chemotherapy.

Question 6

What antibiotics were discovered?

Answer 6

Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin and Florey and Chain researched and experimented. It was used during war and later led to more antibiotics being discovered.