Medicine through the ages Flashcards

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When was Hippocrates and what did he do

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400BC

Created 4 humours and the theory of balancing the humours

Told people to study and make notes
(Hippocratic oath)

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When was Galen and what did he do

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162AD

Anatomy from animals highly respected by church so theory was never questioned

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The Black Death

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1347-48 bubonic and pneumonic blamed on miasma god (flagellants) and Jews

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4
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When was the printing press

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1455

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Vesalius

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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

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Pare

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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

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Harvey

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Discovered circulatory system which again proved Galen wrong by looking at a water pump and at frogs

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The great plague

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1665

New suits, quarantine and linked dirt to disease also buried bodies

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Inoculation

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1721

Injecting ppl with a low dose of small pox

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10
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What did Edward Jenner do

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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

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Edwin Chadwick do and when?

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Wrote a report highlighting poor living conditions in 1842

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When and what James Simpson

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Chloroform in 1847 used by Victoria during labour

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13
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What did Semmelweis do

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Ordered students to wash hands before surgery

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14
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What was in 1848

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First public health act - optional communities could help improve their towns conditions (many didn’t)

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What was in 1854

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The Crimean war - Florence nightingale and Mary seacole

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What did John snow do in 1854

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Solved cholera epidemic (broad street pump)

17
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What happened in 1861

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Germ theory developed by Pasteur

18
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What happened in 1867

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Joesph lister used carbolic spray in surgery

19
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When was the second public health act

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1875 (was made mandatory)

20
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What did Robert Koch do

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Discovered the bacteria that caused specific diseases

21
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What happened in 1895

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Röntgen discover x rays

22
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When and what did Marie curie do

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In 1895 discovered two radioactive elements

23
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What happened in 1902

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Discovery of different blood groups

24
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1905 what happened

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Enrilchs magic bullet chemical to treat syphilis

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When did Fleming accidentally discover penicillin
1928
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What happened in 1942
The beveridge report
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When was the NHS set up
1948 by beveridge
28
When was the great stink
1858