Other Individuals Flashcards
Joseph bazalgette -19th century
Government turned to him to make plans for a series of underground tunnels to remove human waste from 1 million homes in London, he built 83 miles of sewers, which removed 420 mill gallons of sewerage a day, they were finished in 1866 and cholera never returned to London
Edwin chadwick - 19th century
Secretary to the poor law commissioners, used statistical evidence to explore the link between ill health and poverty, he was part of the driving force behind the setting up of the clean party, Wrote a report in 1842, which made the link between poor living conditions, disease and life expectancy
Florence nightingale - 19th century
In the Crimean war, she cleaned up hospital wards and cut the death rate from 40% to 2%. After the war she wrote the book notes on nursing in 1863 which explained how they could be trained and how they should treat the sick, set up the first nurse training school at Saint Thomas´hospital
Leonardo de Vinci - early modern
Artists like him went to great lengths to study the human body so they could better at present it in their drawings, began to study accurately drawn humans, began to illustrate medical books, and help spread understanding
Thomas syndenham - early modern
Strongly believed in observations of the symptoms with as little intervention as possible, strong believer in scientific methods of treating ill health, successfully treated a man suffering from malaria with Chinchona bark, came up with a cool therapy for smallpox, which included lots of fluids, moderate bleeding and keeping the patient cool, echoes of four humours
Lady Johanna St John - early modern
Local lady of the manner, lived near Swindon, many of the herbs she needed grew in a walled garden, sent medicines to her friends in London
Nicholas culpepper - early modern
Published complete herbal in 1653, which is still in print today, set up his own apothecary treating people for free as he had married a wealthy heiress, preferred to examine his patients in person rather than examine their urine
Thomas coram - early modern
Open the first foundling Hospital to care for abandoned children and 1741, spent 10 years raising money from the rich to open the hospital, arranged for foster families to care for children until they were 5 then educated until trained when 15
Robert burton - early modern
Published a study of mental illness, called melancholy, blaming lack of exercise, excessive pleasure, and too much studying, he recommended fresh air, exercise, music and laughter
James Lind - early modern
Came up with a cure for scurvy, which killed more British sailors than warfare, were made to drink lime juice every day
Alexander Gordon - early modern
Studied outbreak of child bed fever, and noticed that people treated by doctors moving between patients lots got the disease, said that medical people should wash their clothes frequency, and wash their hands to stop the spread, laughed at when his ideas were published
Sir Humphrey Davy - 19th century
Invited his friends to inhale the gas, used to relieve pain in operations, published his findings in 1800s, Robert Liston successfully amputated a leg using ether, which was another kind of gas
Dr Thomas Barnado - 19th century
Set up ragged school where hungry children were given cheap breakfast and there were evening classes and Sunday schools, he set up a series of homes for children with the slogan no destitute child ever turned away.
