Medicine through the ages Flashcards
When was Hippocrates and what did he do
400BC
Created 4 humours and the theory of balancing the humours
Told people to study and make notes
(Hippocratic oath)
When was Galen and what did he do
162AD
Anatomy from animals highly respected by church so theory was never questioned
The Black Death
1347-48 bubonic and pneumonic blamed on miasma god (flagellants) and Jews
When was the printing press
1455
Vesalius
Illegally got carcasses from graves and dissected them more accurate anatomy and proved Galen wrong but it wasn’t accepted at first because of religion
Pare
War (factor) was a barber surgeon who by chance ran out of oil and created egg whites rose water and turpentine mixture instead of cauterisation and ligatures
Harvey
Discovered circulatory system which again proved Galen wrong by looking at a water pump and at frogs
The great plague
1665
New suits, quarantine and linked dirt to disease also buried bodies
Inoculation
1721
Injecting ppl with a low dose of small pox
What did Edward Jenner do
Created first vaccine from injecting people (James Phipps) with cow pox so they were immune to small pox - many people objected and he found it by looking at milk maids
Edwin Chadwick do and when?
Wrote a report highlighting poor living conditions in 1842
When and what James Simpson
Chloroform in 1847 used by Victoria during labour
What did Semmelweis do
Ordered students to wash hands before surgery
What was in 1848
First public health act - optional communities could help improve their towns conditions (many didn’t)
What was in 1854
The Crimean war - Florence nightingale and Mary seacole
