Prevention Of Disease

Question 1

Give 3 ways jhon hunter contributed to medical knowledge

Answer 1

• published works including one about changes in pregnancy
• taught Edward Jenner who went on to discover the smallpox vaccine
• Carried out experiments on STI’s like gonorrhoea

Question 2

What was hunter’s understanding of disease based on?

Answer 2

Observation of the progression of disease and gained understanding through dissection

Question 3

Between what years was hunter playing a part in medicine?

Answer 3

1748- 1793

Question 4

Give an example showing jhon hunter was significant in england and explain it

Answer 4

In 1767 he bacame a fellow of the royal society and in 1768, he was elected surgeon to st George’s hospital

Question 5

How did jhon hunter influence others and spread his knowledge?

Answer 5

In 1783 he set up a museum for his specimens and taught students in the large house he moved to

Question 6

How did John hunter’s specimens contribute to medical knowledge?

Answer 6

• preserved 3000 stuffed or dried animals, plants and fossils
• he tried inflating barrow blood vessels with wax

Question 7

What where John hunters scientific methods that helped him contribute to medicine?

Answer 7

• the method of dissections let him prove that an aneurism can be treated using ligatures instead of amputation
• he practised on himself by injecting gonorrhoea pus into him to prove gonorrhoea and syphillis are not the same disease

Question 8

Give examples where jhon hunter’s books contributed to medical knowledge

Answer 8

• his book on veneral disease in 1786 was translated into several different European languages
• his book, blood, inflammation and gunshot wounds put to rest the idea of gunshot wounds being poisonous and should be treated like any other wound

Question 9

How did John hunter influence teaching that helped contribute to medical knowledge?

Answer 9

• He set up a large practise after 1768

- he helped bring about teaching hospitals in 19th century Britain and America

Question 10

What is inoculation?

Answer 10

Purposefully injecting someone with a disease in a controlled way to create immunity from it

Question 11

What is vaccination?

Answer 11

Giving weakened strands of a disease to a healthy person to trigger immunity

Question 12

Explain why people would use inoculation to prevent them getting small pox

Answer 12

As it killed 30-60% of the people who caught it

Left people scarred or blind effecting people’s social life as women were less likely to get married with scars

Question 13

What were the origins of the small pox vaccine?

Answer 13

It started in medieval China where scabs from a smallpox victim were scratched onto a healthy person’s skin to give them a resistance to small pox

Question 14

How did small pox inoculation become widespread?

Answer 14

As the Sutton method developed in 1757 where a lancet (surgical knife) infected with small pox was stabbed into a patient to make them immune

Question 15

Give 3 issues associated with small pox inoculation

Answer 15

• Poor people couldn’t afford inoculation
• people found it hard to understand the idea of getting a small disease to prevent a bigger one
• some still believed god sent illness to test people’s faith so preventing them was wrong