Question 4 factors question Flashcards
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Who were 2 individuals from the medieval period?
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Galen and Hippocrates
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What did Hippocrates invent/ believe in?
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- Four Humours Theory balancing the fluids.
- Different parts of the body needed different treatments.
- He wrote 60 books which influenced medicine for hundreds of years.
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What did Galen do?
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- Learned about anatomy in gladiator school.
- Dissected apes and pigs to learn more.
- Understood the importance of observation and recorded the symptoms.
- Galen’s books were used as university textbooks until the middle ages.
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Who were 2 individuals from the Early Modern period?
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Edward Jenner and William Harvey.
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What did William Harvey find?
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- His book “on the motion of the heart” challenged Galen.
- He experimented on animals and discovered how blood pumped around the body in a circular motion.
- He experimented on a patients forearm to prove blood was pumping and proved it was impossible to have too much blood.
- Reduced blood-letting and long term helped understanding of the heart and kidney disease.
- His work helped the discovery of capillaries 60 years later.
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What did Edward Jenner do?
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- Heard that milkmaid with cowpox never caught smallpox.
- Injected James Phipps with cowpox pus then once recovered smallpox pus.
- In 1798 wrote “an inquiry into the causes and effects of Varioae Vaccinae, or cow-pox”
- Given £10,000 in 1802, by the government to continue his research.
- In 1840 vaccinations free for all infants, 1853 compulsary for all.
- Other diseases have been almost wiped out due to vaccinations e.g. polia and measles.
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Who were 2 individuals from the 19th century?
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
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What did Louis Pasteur do?
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- Established the link between germs and diseases, invented Germ Theory.
- Invented Pasteurisation which made food and drink safer from infection.
- He argued that micro-organisms were responsible for disease and that if only we could discover these micro-organisms, then a vaccine could be specifically developed to target an individual disease.
- His first work was on chicken cholera, and this led, in 1880, to an effective vaccine against rabies.
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What did Robert Koch do?
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- Robert Koch, a German scientist, took the work of Louis Pasteur further.
- In the lab he was able to link certain germs to particular diseases. He used a stain to identify bacteria.
- In 1882, he discovered the specific bacteria that caused TB.
- In 1883 and 1884, he discovered those for cholera.
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Who were individuals from the 20th century?
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Alexander Fleming and Aneurin Bevan.
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What did Fleming do?
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- During WW! he was sent to study wounded soldiers.
- He decided to look for something which would kill the microbes which caused the infections.
- Fleming was investigating a drug (which caused septicaemia).
- When he got back from holiday he found that spores from mouldy bread left in his lab had got into the petri dish and killed the germ.
- This mould was Penicillin.
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What did Aneurin Bevan do?
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- Minister of health introduced by the Labour government to create the NHS.
- All medical people from doctors to pharmacists were brught together under one organisation for “cradle to grave care” paid for through taxation.
- Everyone could see a doctor for free.
- Life expectancy increased from 66-83 for women and from 64-79 for men since the NHS.
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What are the 2 factorss for chance during the Medieval period?
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Barber Surgeons’ Tooth Worms and the Black Death.
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Why was the barber surgeons tooth worms chance?
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- Used hot wire and put it into cavity to kill the tooth worm making the hole.
- It actuality killed the nerves, this stopping the pain.
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Why was the Black Death chance?
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- Popping the buboes to release the evil spirits in the disease inadvertently released some of the infection.
- Cleaning all filth from the streets, ordered by the king- they didn’t know why but it reduced the number of rats which carried fleas.
