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what were the causes of disease during medieval

.miasma

.the four humour

.astrology

.god

.theory of opposite

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What were the prevention of disease during medival

.purifying the air

.prayer

.hygiene

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What were the treatment of diseases during medieval

.prayer & repentance

.herbal remedies

.bloodletting & purging

.fasting

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What were the care for diseases during medieval

.few public hospital only for travellers or old people

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What were the causes of disease during renaissance

.weather

.transference

.god

.miasma

. Supernatural

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What were prevention of diseases during renaissance

.cleanliness & hygiene

.prayer

.practice moderation

.quarantine

.hygiene

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What were the treatment of diseases during renaissance

.transference

.herbal remedies(south and North America)

.iatrochemistry

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What were the care in diseases during renaissance

.care in hospital

.pest houses

.number of hospitals

.printing press

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What were the causes of diseases during industrial

.germ theory

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What were the prevention of diseases during industrial

.vaccination

.quarantine

.public health act

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What were the treatments of diseases during industrial

.Anaesthetics

.antiseptics

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What were the care in disease during industrial

Improving in hospital and nursing

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What were the cause of disease during Morden

.dna

.lifestyle

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What were the prevention of disease during Morden

.penicillin

.magic bullet

.life style campaigns

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What were the treatment in disease during Morden

Development in diagnosis

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What were the care in diseases during Morden

NHS

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When did the Black Death occur and what was its impact

14th century- killed 50% of population

.bubonic plague- caused swellings spread by the bite of fleas from rat symptoms,high temperature,headaches

.pneumonic plague-attack the lung painful to breath, cough up blood

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What was the theory of the 4 humours

Hippocrates

.blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile

Needed to be balanced for good health

Hippocrates than developed my galen

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What was printing press

1440

Allowed books to be copied much more easily which means people could question or adapt existing ideas

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What was the great plague

1665

20% died-65,000 died in London

.prayer

.quarantine

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Who was andreas Vesalius and why was she important

.created detailed drawing of the human body- proved galen theory incorrect

.influence people to have a proper understanding of the anatomy

.found out that the jaw was one bone

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Who was Thomas Sydenham and why was he important

.made detail observations and kept an accurate record linked them to other diseases

.wrote a medical textbook “medical observations”

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Who was William Harvey and what was he’s impact

Renaissance

.understanding of the body

.challenge to galen

.discovered how blood circulated around the body

.dissected animal and proved that blood was pumped by the blood

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Who is Edward Jenner and what was his impact

18/19th Century

.created the first vaccination in medicine

.changed the idea of inoculation

.government made vaccination against small pox compulsory during 1853

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Louis Pasteur

18/19th century

.germ theory

. Prove that germs causes disease by using fermentation to work out why his milk went sour

. First idea of cause of diseases that was accurate

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Robert Koch

18/19th century

. Built on germ theory

. Discovered specific microbes.

. Discovered anthrax, tuberculosis and chicken cholera

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Advancement of technology in Morden

.blood test

.x-ray

.ultrasound scan

.magic bullet

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What was the idea of DNA in Morden

.1900- theory of genetics

.1953-Watson and crick discovered the shape of dna

.helps the understanding of cause of disease

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what is the NHS during Morden

.1911- only covered working men

.1948- provided free heathcare for all from birth to death

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Case study-penicillin

.1871-joseph lister used penicillin no record of his discovery

.1928- Fleming noticed in his lab some mold was killing bacteria in a dirty Petri dish , published

.1940-Florey&chain tested Fleming work on mice got backing from USA drug companies to mass produce

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Case study-cancer

.second most common cancer

. 85% of cases are smoker

.1918- 1% of lung cancer

.1927- 14% of lung cancer

.radiotherapy

.chemotherapy

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Government taking action during Morden

.advertsing ban

. Ban on smoking in public

. Anti-smoking campaigns

.raising taxes

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Public health act of 1848

.government has laissez- Faire attitude to public heath

.encouraged ‘boards of health’ to monitor living conditions

.not compulsory

.many towns and cities ignored their recommendations

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The public heath act of 1875

.compulsory

.HAD to provide clean water, dispose of sewage, built public toilet and public health officer to outbreak disease

.

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Who wa John snow and what was his impact

Start- 1831

.Mapped out areas that had an increase in cholera and linked that dirty water was the cause

.only after the great sink of 1858 before the government included new sewers

.snows removal of the water pumps handle on boats street ended the outbreak of cholera in soho in 1854

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Lifestyle factors

.smoking-beome increasingly important by 20th century

.diet

.alcohol- doctor made a link between drinking to much alcohol and disease

.tanning- doctors realise that prolonged exposure to the skin increases skin cancer

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James Simpson

18/19th century

Anaesthetic- chloroform

.allowed longer more complex surgeries

.decreased blood loss

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Joseph lister

18/19th century

.antiseptic

.carbolic spray- spray pumps

.changed the death rate from 50% to 15%

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Florence nightingale

18/19th century

.believed in miasma

.set up nursing school in 1860

.wrote “notes on nursing” in 1859

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Alexander Fleming

Modern-

Penicillin-1928

. Described from leaving bacteria on a Petri dish

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Florey and chain

Morden

.freeze dried penicillin to keep it ready for use

.USA funded to mass produce the drug

.was used 2 million times during WW1

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Crick and Watson

Modern

.discovered dna double helix

. Allowed scientist to discover genetic diseases and start human Genome project

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The great sink

1858

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Chadwick’s report

1842