Modern Disease Environments: Cholera

Question 1

who was Thomas Sydenham?

Answer 1

Physician & surgeon in London during the Great Plague
emphasized that you could trace the path of disease by looking at them in their own environment

Question 2

what is Epidemiology

Answer 2

the study of the determinants and occurances of diseases

Question 3

Clynical medicine

Answer 3

Study of treatments, diagnosis and preventions of a disease

Question 4

Bills of morality

Answer 4

a list of how people died yearly, used for monarchs to see how bad the disease was so they could escape

Question 5

Waste management in the 19th century

Answer 5

people used public toilets, sinks, and wells
contamination was comon
there was no water treatment or filtration system, waste flowed straight into the river Temes.

Question 6

What is Miasmas?

Answer 6

the belief that the disease arose from inhaling air that had been corrupted by decaying matter or disease.
disease = bad smells, bad air

Question 7

what was Cholera?

Answer 7

vibro cholerae

cholera was a disease that spread and thrived in water, typically salty warmer climates
it was a product of new technologies, trade and industrial movement

spread through water and contaminated food

symptoms: gastronomical disease in the intestines, vomiting and watery diarrhea

death from dehydration

Question 8

Quarintines

Answer 8

they were used to enforce isolation, but not very effective because Cholera spread through water

Question 9

What did William Farr believe?

Answer 9

contingent congatement theory:
the belief that poisoned particles in the air spread cholera.
miasmas

Question 10

Who was John Snow?

Answer 10

He was against William Farr’s idea of miasmas
He believed that cholera was not from particles in the air, but that the body ingested it because it affected the respiratory system.
experimented in his neighbourhood by removing access to a pump that he thought was contaminated.