Medicine Through Time Flashcards

1
Q

What were the causes of disease

1200-1500

A

Church

Astrology

4 Humours

Miasma

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2
Q

Treatment

1200-1500

A

Prayer

Humoural treatments

Fasting

Bathing

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3
Q

Prevention

1200-1500

A

Pray!

Basic hygiene

Carry posy 💐

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4
Q

Who cares for the sick ?

A

Physician

Apothecary

Surgeon

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5
Q

When was the Black Death ?

A

1348 -50

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6
Q

What is the bubonic plague ?

A

Spread by fleas on rats

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7
Q

What’s the pneumonic plague ?

A

Spread by coughing

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8
Q

Who is Hippocrates ?

A

Greek physician came up with the 4 Humours

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9
Q

Who is Galen ?

A

Roman physician who wrote about the basis of medical understanding

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10
Q

Physician?

A

University educated who practices medicine

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11
Q

Apothecary?

A

Mixed herbal remedies

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12
Q

When was the Renaissance ?

A

1500-1700

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13
Q

What’s the causes in 1500-1700

A

4 humours
Miasma
Church had less control

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14
Q

Treatments in the renaissance period?

A

Transference
Herbal remedies
Chemical cures

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15
Q

Prevention in the renaissance?

A

Cleanliness

Moderation

Reduce miasma

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16
Q

When was the great plague?

A

1665

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17
Q

How many people died in the great plague ?

A

65,000

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18
Q

Prevention for the great plague?

A

Quarantine

Prayer

Pomander

Plague doctors

Public meetings stoped

19
Q

Who’s Thomas Sydenham ?

A

Observed the patients symptoms not the disease

20
Q

Versalius

A

Found errors in Galen’s work and made the book ‘Fabric of the human body’

21
Q

William Harvey ?

A

Discovered how blood circulated round the body

22
Q

Anatomy ?

A

The human body

23
Q

Quarantine ?

A

Isolate ill people

24
Q

Who’s Louis Pasteur ?

A

Developed the germ theory

Observed that microbes in the air cause liquids to rot

25
Q

Who’s Robert Koch ?

A

Identified that different microbes cause different disease

26
Q

Who is Florence nightingale?

A

Nurse in the Crimean war who made changes to hospitals and the treatment of soldiers

27
Q

What were the 3 main problems in surgery?

A

Pain - chloroform

Infection - carbolic spray

Blood loss

28
Q

Who’s Edward Jenner ?

A

Developed the vaccination to protect us against small pox

29
Q

What year was the public health act ?

A

1848

30
Q

What year did they make vaccines for small pox compulsory?

A

1852

31
Q

What year was the second public health act and what did it do ?

A

1875

Government took more action to living conditions

32
Q

When did cholera arrive ?

A

1831 - 54

33
Q

Who’s John Snow ?

A

Worked out cholera was caused by dirty water

34
Q

What was the name of the pump that cholera was found at ?

A

Broad St

35
Q

James Simpson ?

A

Chloroform

36
Q

Joseph lister

A

Carbolic avid

37
Q

Spontaneous generation ?

A

Cause of decay

38
Q

In he 21st century what cause of disease?

A

Technology

Genetics

Smoking

Poor diet

39
Q

Alexander Fleming ?

A

Discovered penicillin

40
Q

Florey and chain ?

A

Developed penicillin and joined with the us to make more

41
Q

2nd most common cancer ?

A

Lung

42
Q

Watson and crick ?

A

Structure of DNA

43
Q

What a magic bullet ?

A

Kills disease but doesn’t effect the rest of the body

44
Q

Antibiotic?

A

Stop or destroys growth of bacteria