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  • what did Edward Jenner do?
    developed a vaccine for smallpox
  • how many did smallpox kill a year?
    400,000
  • what did Edward Jenner test?
    contaminating James Phipps with cowpox and then giving him smallpox
  • was Edward Jenners test successful?
    yes, James Phipps did not die from the smallpox
  • what year did the government make the smallpox vaccine compulsory?
    1852
  • why did the smallpox vaccine not lead to other vaccines?
    people still didn't know bacteria caused disease
  • what year did the government fine parents for not having children vaccinated?
    1871
  • what did the smallpox vaccine do?
    lower amount of deaths and wiped out smallpox all together in 1970s
  • why did people not follow the smallpox vaccine?
    • Jenner didn't know why his vaccine worked
    • Jenner was a rural doctor so he wasn't believed
    • inoculation was already being carried out
  • what was inoculation?
    inserting a piece of the disease in an open wound to gain immunity
  • is vaccination a treatment or prevention?
    prevention
  • what was a new theory of the cause of disease?
    spontaneous generation
  • what was spontaneous generation?
    they thought rotting and decay caused germs
  • who was Louis Pasteur?
    a French scientist
  • what was Louis Pasteurs theory?
    germ theory
  • what was germ theory?
    the theory that germs in the air affect the human body
  • what was Louis Pasteurs experiment?
    he left wine and vinegar out and it went off
  • why did the wine and vinegar go off?
    because the microbes in the air caused it to begin to decay
  • what did Louis Pasteur think germs did?
    cause disease
  • when did Louis Pasteur conduct his experiment?
    1861
  • when did Louis Pasteur publish the results for his experiment?
    1878 (17 years later)
  • what was Pasteur trying to disprove?
    spontaneous generation
  • why did germ theory have limited influence?
    • Pasteur was not a doctor
    • people refused to recognise the link between germs and disease
    • more well respected doctors promoted other ideas
  • what did Robert koch do?
    stained microbes with industrial dyes
  • what did staining microbes do?
    showed that different germs caused different diseases
  • who was Robert koch?
    a German scientist
  • how many new diseases did koch discover?
    21
  • what bacteria did koch discover and when?
    TB in 1882
  • when did koch win a Nobel prize?
    1905
  • what animals did koch test on?
    mice and chickens
  • what did koch do to the mice and chickens?
    • injected mice with anthrax bacteria
    • injected chicken with cholera
    • this made them immune
  • Koch influenced many people such as Roberts, Tyndall and Cheyenne
  • due to kochs work doctors began to study the disease rather than the symptoms
  • what was koch named?
    father of bacteriology
  • how many hospitals were left after Henry VIII dissolved the monastries and where were they all?
    5 in london
  • as more people began to attend hospitals they became more unsanitary and refused less infectious people
  • what did Florence nightingale do?
    train nurses in hygiene and promoted cleanliness and sanitation in hospitals
  • what did nightingale follow?
    pavilion plan
  • what was nightingale nicknamed?
    lady of the lamp
  • what were some steps nightingale followed?
    • cleaned everywhere
    • good food
    • fresh sheets
    • ventilation
    • beds 2m apart