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Medicine Through Time Flashcards

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What did Hippocrates believe?

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He believed in not praying to God but finding bodily cures.

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Explain four humours?

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You have four humours that go out of balance have to purge or bleed.

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Explain Hippocratic oath

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A doctor should do their patient no harm and work to preserve their life.

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Hoe did Galen cone up with his concepts about the human body?

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He directed animals and some humans

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Who were the rich medieval treated by?

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Physicians trained in the ideas of Galen.

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Who were poor medieval people treated by?

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Untrained apothecaries and monks who gave out herbal and folk recipes.

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What year was the Black Death?

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1348

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What were the causes of the Black Death?

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Overcrowding, poor living conditions, and poor public health.

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What did people think caused the Black Death?

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God, over eating and drinking, evil spirits.

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What progress was made during the medieval period?

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No progress was made. Medicine was still based on the ideas of the church Hippocrates and Galen.

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What happened to the churches support in the Renaissance period?

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It loosened.

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What made communication of new ideas more efficient and effective?

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The invention of the printing press.

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What are bezar stones?

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Stones from the inside of goats that were believed to cure all poisoning.

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What did Paré do?

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He began to challenge old ideas using a scientific approach.

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How did was progress made on the battle field?

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They replaced hot oil on wounds to sewing up veins and rosewater.

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What did Harvey learn about the heart?

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That it pumped blood, and blood was not just produced in the liver and then burned in the muscles.

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What year was the Great Plague?

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1664

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How was the approach to cure the plague different to the Black Death?

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There was a more scientific approach.

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How was the approach to prevent the plague different to the Black Death?

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It was more planned out, and for example there government issued orders.

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What steps were taken to improve public health during the plague?

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Fires were lit to cleanse air, public gatherings were cancelled, people were made to clean there property.

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What progress was made during thew renaissance?

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New medical books were available, surgical methods were improved, anatomy understood.

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Why was progress in there renaissance period limited?

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The new information didn’t impact treatment much and poor people were not effected.

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What happened in public health in there industrial period?

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The higher classes and doctors came to have more interest in the health of the masses.

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How did Jenner find the cure for smallpox?

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He observed scientifically that milkmaids who had had cowpox never developed smallpox.

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Why were Jenners discoveries attacked?

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People were scared that they would turn into cows, nobody understood why the vaccine worked.

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What happened with public health during industry era?

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It improved since doctors and wealthy patrons started to open hospitals. People could train there.

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What happened to number of doctors during this period?

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It greatly increased since there was more training available.

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What happened to the number of strange remedies and purging?

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They started to be ignored as doctors had more hands on experience.

29
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What did Louis Pasteurs germ theory state?

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Disease was caused by germs, germs were not caused bt disease.

30
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What did Joseph Lister do?

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He used carboxylic acid to sterilise operating theatres and surgeons. It had limited impact because of no anaesthetics.

31
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What did most industrial age people still believe?

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Miasma caused disease.

32
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What did William Farr and Edwin Chadwick work to prove?

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That there was a link between poverty and disease .

33
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What caused politicians to take action and improve public health?

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1858, the great stink brought the effects of unsanitary condition to the politicians.

34
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What did the 1887 voting act (giving vote to more men) do for public health?

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It meant the the government could no longer take a lasses faire approach.

35
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What did the industrial government do for public health?

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They made parks in cities, improved housing, built sewer systems, public health acts.

36
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What did the 1848 public health act do?

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It recommended steps local government could take to improve health.

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What did the 1875 public health act do?

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Enforced the recommendation made in 1848.

38
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What did the 1884 public health act state and the 1875 health act enforce?

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Improved drainage and sewers, removal rubbish from houses and streets, clean supply of drinking water, medical officer in each town.

39
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What did Marie Curie do for medicine?

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She helped develop X-ray using radioactive material, although she did not know the dangers.

40
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What did WWI do for medicine?

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It advanced it as doctors were forced to innovate and try to treat new kinds of wounds.

41
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What did Harold Gillies do?

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He developed plastic surgery.

42
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What did Alex Flemming discover by mistake?

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Penicillin growing on one of his old Petri dishes.

43
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Why did Flemmings breakthrough have little impact?

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He did not think it important and therefore did not follow it up.

44
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What did Florey and Chain do?

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They acted on Flemmings discovery and fought for funding to develop a penicillin that could be mass produced.

45
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What did Crick and Watson do?

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Used government funding to discover DNA

46
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Who helped Crick and Watson?

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Morris Wlikins and Rosalind Franklin

47
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What year was true NHS created?

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1948

48
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Who recommended the NHS was formed?

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Bevan and Beverage in a report

49
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How did Versalius disprove Galen?

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He proved thinks such as we do not have a split jaw like many other mammals do

50
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How did Paré improve surgery?

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He experimented with different treatments such as rose water ands sewing up arteries to see hoe patients reacted differently.

51
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Why were Harveys theory about circulation challenged?

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They did not agree with Galen, blood letting was instilled in people ands had even become fashionable.

52
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What does spontaneous generation state?

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That life occurs out off nothing.

53
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How did Pasteur use milk to prove his theories?

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He was able to prove with a microscope that bacteria made milk go off, it didn’t just go off.

54
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How did Koch prove bacteria existed?

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He isolated the bacteria in question and injected them into healthy mice that then got ill.

55
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How did Koch disprove old ideas about bacteria?

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He isolated and stained them then photographed them proving that they are not all the same.

56
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How did Pasteur create cholera vaccines?

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He injected old bacteria into chickens and saw they got ill but did not die.

57
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How did Pasteur and Koch start the development of vaccines?

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They made vaccines for some bacteria, and them gave other scientists the information to do the same for themselves.

58
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At the beginning of the industrial era what were the problems of open surgery?

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The pain was unbearable, infection was easy to catch.

59
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What dis chloroform do for surgery and pain relief?

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It made open surgery an option and it was the first reliable pain relief.

60
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Who was responsible for the invention of chloroform?

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James Simpson in 1847

61
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Who invented antiseptic surgery?

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Joseph Lister building on the germ theory

62
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How was aseptic surgery performed?

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Everything including hands and instruments were socked and scrubbed in carboxylic acid

63
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What did Listers discovery lead to?

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The scrubbing of hands and arms, sterilising operating theatres, and wearing surgical gowns

64
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When was the germ theory published?

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1864

65
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What is a magic bullet?

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A chemical that targets a particular microbe and does not harm any other part of the body

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