Medicine Through Time Flashcards
What were the causes of disease
1200-1500
Church
Astrology
4 Humours
Miasma
Treatment
1200-1500
Prayer
Humoural treatments
Fasting
Bathing
Prevention
1200-1500
Pray!
Basic hygiene
Carry posy 💐
Who cares for the sick ?
Physician
Apothecary
Surgeon
When was the Black Death ?
1348 -50
What is the bubonic plague ?
Spread by fleas on rats
What’s the pneumonic plague ?
Spread by coughing
Who is Hippocrates ?
Greek physician came up with the 4 Humours
Who is Galen ?
Roman physician who wrote about the basis of medical understanding
Physician?
University educated who practices medicine
Apothecary?
Mixed herbal remedies
When was the Renaissance ?
1500-1700
What’s the causes in 1500-1700
4 humours
Miasma
Church had less control
Treatments in the renaissance period?
Transference
Herbal remedies
Chemical cures
Prevention in the renaissance?
Cleanliness
Moderation
Reduce miasma
When was the great plague?
1665
How many people died in the great plague ?
65,000
Prevention for the great plague?
Quarantine
Prayer
Pomander
Plague doctors
Public meetings stoped
Who’s Thomas Sydenham ?
Observed the patients symptoms not the disease
Versalius
Found errors in Galen’s work and made the book ‘Fabric of the human body’
William Harvey ?
Discovered how blood circulated round the body
Anatomy ?
The human body
Quarantine ?
Isolate ill people
Who’s Louis Pasteur ?
Developed the germ theory
Observed that microbes in the air cause liquids to rot
Who’s Robert Koch ?
Identified that different microbes cause different disease
Who is Florence nightingale?
Nurse in the Crimean war who made changes to hospitals and the treatment of soldiers
What were the 3 main problems in surgery?
Pain - chloroform
Infection - carbolic spray
Blood loss
Who’s Edward Jenner ?
Developed the vaccination to protect us against small pox
What year was the public health act ?
1848
What year did they make vaccines for small pox compulsory?
1852
What year was the second public health act and what did it do ?
1875
Government took more action to living conditions
When did cholera arrive ?
1831 - 54
Who’s John Snow ?
Worked out cholera was caused by dirty water
What was the name of the pump that cholera was found at ?
Broad St
James Simpson ?
Chloroform
Joseph lister
Carbolic avid
Spontaneous generation ?
Cause of decay
In he 21st century what cause of disease?
Technology
Genetics
Smoking
Poor diet
Alexander Fleming ?
Discovered penicillin
Florey and chain ?
Developed penicillin and joined with the us to make more
2nd most common cancer ?
Lung
Watson and crick ?
Structure of DNA
What a magic bullet ?
Kills disease but doesn’t effect the rest of the body
Antibiotic?
Stop or destroys growth of bacteria
