Studied by 0 people
Black Death
1347 - 1351
The great plague
1665 - 1666
3 main reasons for people dying
Pain, blood loss, cauterisation
Cauterisation
Seal off blood supply
Renaissance
Re - birth
The four humours
Phlegm, blood, black bile, yellow bile
Physician
Only for the rich, examine urine
Barber surgeon
For those with less money, bleed you and cute hair/ perform surgery.
Monasteries
Care homes run by monks.
Wise women
Women in villages who would give advice to the sick, they were the most helpful.
Lister
Death rate when from 46% → 15%
Joseph Lister
An English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, known for reducing the death rate in surgical patients through the use of antiseptics.
Carbolic acid
A chemical used by Joseph Lister as an antiseptic in surgery to kill bacteria and prevent infection.
Two main problems with surgery
Pain and infection.
James Simpson
A Scottish physician known for pioneering the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during childbirth in the 19th century.
Chloroform
Ether + hydrochloric acid
Germ theory
Disease caused by microorganisms.
Pasteur
French biologist known for developing the germ theory of disease and inventing pasteurization.
Koch
German physician, injected mice with anthrax, proved germs caused disease, stained and found 21 different types of disease causing germs.
