industrial medicine

• louie pasteurs discovery of germ theory- germs cause disease

  disproving spontaneus generation- organisms could arise from non-living matter
• joseph lister- carbolic acid- antiseptic
• james simpson- cholorform- anesthetic
• miamsa- still believed cause of illness
• florence nitingale- crimean war, cleaned and improved hospitals, in terms of care, sanitary conditions, and improved nurses
• Edwin chadwick reporter- public health act 1875
• reform act- working class men could now vote
• anesthetic and antiseptic solved 2 main causes of death in surgery- pain and infection.
• bad living conditions- laizes faire
• john snow believed dirty water caused cholera
• Edward jenner- smallpox vaccine, first ever vaccine, 1796, lead to safer developments of vaccinations
• public health act 1875- clean water, propper sewage and drainage sysetm