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renaissance medicine Flashcards

1
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When was the second plague?

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1655

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How did people treat the plague?

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  • cutting open buboes
  • using medicines that contained: herbs, spice honey and opium
  • bleeding or purging
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How did people avoid catching the plague?

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  • carrying strong smelling herbs
  • stayed home
  • coins were soaked in vinegar to stop the spread
  • chewed tobacco
  • fasting
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How did the plague end?

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a mixture of cold weather, the disease reaching the end of its natural course and the great fire of london

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Who was known as the ‘English Hippocrates’?

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Thomas Sydenham

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What did Thomas Sydenham do?

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  • made the first description of scarlet fever
  • believed in letting the body fight disease itself
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Who were the royal society and what did they do?

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group of people interested in discussing new scientific ideas.
- demonstrated experiments
- published books and articles to spread new ideas and discovery

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When was the first royal society meeting?

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1645

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Who invented the printing press and when?

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Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s

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What did William Harvey discover?

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how the blood circulates around the body

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How did Harvey disprove Galen?

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  • proving that blood doesn’t passed from one side of the heart to the other through invisible holes in the septum
  • proving that the body has a one-way system for blood
  • proved that blood isn’t made in the liver
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What was William Harvey’s book called and when was it published?

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An anatomical account of the motion of the heart and blood
- published in 1628

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How did Harvey prove this?

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  • dissecting live cold-blooded animals whose hearts beat slowly
  • dissecting human bodies to build up detailed knowledge of heart
  • proving that the veins carry blood
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How did Vesalius prove Galen wrong?

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  • the human jaw bone is made from one bone, not two
  • Breastbone has three parts, not seven
  • blood does not flow into the heart through invisible holes in the septum
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What was Vesalius’s book called and when was it published?

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The Fabric of the Human Body in 1543

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What did ‘The Fabric of the Human Body’ contain?

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detailed illustrations of the human body

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How did Vesalius research?

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he stole the body of a criminal from the gallows to dissect

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Who created the vaccination?

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Edward Jenner

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Describe how the vaccination was created?

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  • he observed that milkmaids who had caught cowpox never caught small pox
  • inserted some cow pox matter into a few cuts in someones hand
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When did Edward Jenner publish his book?

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1798

21
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When did Pasteur publish germ theory?

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1861

22
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What did Robert Koch do and when?

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He made the first identification of the bacterium causing an individual disease in 1876

23
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What is the first bacterium that Koch identified?

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anthrax

24
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What did Koch and his team discover in 1882?

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the bacterium that caused tuberculosis

25
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Who created the rabies vaccine?

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Edward Jenner

26
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What did Edwin Chadwick do and when?

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he wrote the ‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population’ in 1842

27
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When was the first public health act?

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1848

28
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What was the first public health act?

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  • a national board of health was set up
  • In towns where the death rate is high, local councils were made to make improvements to water supply and sewerage
  • encouraged to collect taxes to make health improvements
29
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When was the first cholera break out?

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1831

30
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How did John Snow discover cholera in the broad street pump?

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  • within ten days 500 people around broad street pump had died. So, he took the handle off and there were no more deaths
31
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What happened in 1858?

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an effective sewer system was built after the very hot summer of 1858, with no rain, river levels fell, especially in the Thames. The smell grew worst and worst

32
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When was the second public health act?

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1875

33
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What did the second public health act contain?

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  • compulsory for local councils to improve sewers and drainage, provide fresh water supplies and appoint medical officers and sanitary inspectors to inspect public health facilities
34
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When was the Crimean war?

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1854

35
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how did Florence Nightingale affect death rates in hospitals?

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they fell from 40% to 2%

36
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When was the Nightingale School for nurses set up?

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1860

37
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What were Florence Nightingale’s two books called and when were they published?

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  • Notes on nursing- 1859
  • Notes on hospitals- 1863
38
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What did Florence Nightingale improve?

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  • sanitation in hospitals
  • ventilation to make sure patients got fresh clean air to breathe
  • food supplies, clothing and washing facilities for patients
39
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What were local hospitals called?

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cottage hospitals

40
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What was the first anaesthetic and why wasn’t it successful?

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laughing gas (nitrous oxide)
- it irritated the eyes and lungs

41
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What did James Simpson do and when?

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discovered chloroform in 1847

42
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How did Simpson discover chloroform was a good anaesthetic?

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One evening him and his colleagues tested different chemicals to test what anaesthetic effects they had. He poured some chloroform in a tumbler and inhaled it before dinner and within minutes his wife found him ‘under the table’

43
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Who figured out how to regulate the dose of chloroform, when and how?

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John Snow in 1848 by creating an inhaler

44
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When was surgeries ‘black period’?

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1850-70

45
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What caused surgeries ‘black period’?

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  • using too much chloroform
  • some doctors thought pain-free surgery was unnatural
  • increased blood loss and infections due to doctors attempting more complex surgeries while using anaesthetics
46
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What was the first antiseptic?

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carbolic acid

47
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How did Lister experiment with carbolic acid?

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he experimented by treating fractures where the bone is sticking out the skin- he would apply carbolic acid on a bandage and they wouldn’t develop gangrene

48
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When did Joseph Lister publish his results?

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1867

49
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When was the first successful heart operation?

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1896

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