prevention Flashcards
how did the church tell people to prevent disease in medieval
preying to god flagellants would also whip themselves for forgiveness
what was carried to keep away miasmas
sweet smelling herbs
what did fleeing a disease do
spread the disease more
what measures did help in the med times
Ed 3rd ordered streets to be cleaned
people avoided the infected
painted red crossed of infected doors
what did alchemists try do
turn base metals like lead into gold and make the elixir of life
what are soothsayers
wise women who people would go to when i’ll and they would give plants and burns and make charms to ward off evil
what were medieval doctors like
most care wasn’t by doctors but by barber surgeons (cut hair and small surgery’s) and apothecaries (made herbal remedies)
what were med physicians trained in
the 4 humours theory
how did plague doctors protect themselves from the plague
long clothes
nose cone with herbs
who is paracelsus
1493-1541 an alchemist who used alchemy for chemical and mineral treatments
how did the soothsayers role change in early modern
it didn’t
when did the gov make the small ox vaccine free
1840- then compulsory in 1852
how did rich try to prevent disease in industrial
fresh air, exercise and diet
what theory was still believed in 18th century
four humours
when science “begin”
18th century enlightenment
people used scientific methods
made great discoveries
doctors were trained
scientific papers were published to teach people
when was the stethoscope invented
1816
what did john snow do
he used the scientific method in the 1854 cholera epidemic
he plotted cases on a map and found there were many around the broudherst pump
snow shut the pump and cases fell proving cholera was water born
who made the fist vaccine what was it and how
edward jenner
small pox
in 1798 he found milkmaids who had cowpox wouldn’t suffer from small pox so he tested his theory and it worked and was given a £30,000 reward
who is lady montagu
in asia 1721 she inoculated her kids against small pox’s by using the live virus and she brought it from istanbul
when and who discovered the germ theory
pasteur in 1861
what did koch discover
that specific bacteria caused specific diseases
this ment that that attempts to treat diseases could be more specific
who discovered that antibodies worked on specific bacteria
koch
when was small pox eradicated
1920- brittan
1927-globally
when we’re the polio and mmr vaccines created
polio-1955
mmr-1988
