What medicine was like in the Modern World Flashcards
1
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How they thought caused disease
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Proper understanding of germs, 1902 - Missing chemical pathways, 1953 - DNA.
2
Q
How they prevented illness
A
Better vaccines, More government involvement in public health (NHS 1948).
3
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How they treated illness
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1909 - Salvarsan 606, 1928 - Alexander Fleming paper on penicillin, 1940s - Chain and Florey developed penicillin, Nowadays experiments into gene therapy.
