theme: war

Question 1

medicine stands still

Answer 1

• downfall of the Roman empire- lost information
• the crusades- brought information
• first time chemical weaponry was used

Question 2

the beginnings of change

Answer 2

• educated many barber surgeons eg Ambroise Pare with actual experience, leading to new inventions
• Limes were used a cure for scurvy in 1617 for sailors

Question 3

a revolution in medicine

Answer 3

• Crimean War- nursing habits changed due to Florence Nightingale and Government paid- laissez faire attitude changed
• Franco-Prussian War affected Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur fight for Germ theory

Question 4

modern medicine

Answer 4

• penicillin- was mass made due to WW2 and led to pharmaceutical industry
• X-rays became mobile and reliable
• Plastic Surgery developed rapidly to help pilots with facial reconstruction
• discovery made in 1917 to reduce soldiers’ blood loss, that sodium nitrate prevents blood clotting made blood transfusions much easier
• the government became concerned about public health due to lack of fit volunteers for the Boer War- led to public health reforms
• liberal reforms made in the wake of WW2 to put in place reforms from the Beveridge Report to prevent the ‘Five Giants’ were to give war heroes a amazing country to come home to- war caused social change such as the NHS

Question 5

war summary:

Answer 5

• Develops new inventions rapidly but doesn’t usually advance medical understanding
• Provides experience to many doctors, especially of anatomy
• Aids in changing Goverment laissez faire attitude towards public health
• Creates social change within society