Question 1 (Y10 Medicine Mock 1) Flashcards
History medicine test
What cure did James lind create?
In 1753 came up with a cure for scurvy (caused by lack of vitamin c) by making sailors drink lime juice
What was encouraged to stop the plague?
Public prayers and weekly fasting
What was quackery?
People began to invent and sell medicines which they new didn’t work
What were a few of the things daffy’s elixir claimed to cure?
Piles, gout, fits, kidney stones
How did people treat the great plague of 1665?
Apply a chickens tail to sores, live pigeons cut in half
How did people try to prevent catching the plague?
Smell sweet smelling flowers because they thought it was caused by miasma (bad smelling air)
What were quacks?
People who were fake doctors
What did Harvey do to improve treatment of illness?
His research into circulation led to the reduction of blood letting which is significant because at the time people were still blood letting and relied on four humours
What did paré apply to wounds because he ran out of cauterising oil?
Mixture of egg yolk, turpentine and oil of roses
What did Nicolas culpepper do to impact medicine?
Wrote a book called “the complete herbal” in 1653. He tried to combine the use of herbs with doctrine of signatures and astrology.
What was Thomas Sydenham’s cool therapy?
Treatment for smallpox that involves lots of liquids moderate bleeding and keeping the patient cool (still elements of four humours)
What was used as a tremendous for dysentery?
Crows droppings
What did they use in cures that is actually effective?
Honey -kills some bacteria
What cure was acquired through travel?
Quinnine extracted from tree bark that grows in south America proved an effective treatment of malaria
