Medicine

• who came up with the idea of the 4 humours

  hippocrates
• who came up with the theory of opposites

  galen
• when did the Black Death arrive in britain

  1348
• by 1349, how much of the British population had died from the black plague

  a third
• what did William Harvey do

  discovered the heart as a pump, taught Vesalius' theories
• what was vesalius' book called

  on the fabric of the human body
• how many of Galen's mistakes did Vesalius note in his book

  over 300
• what did Charles ii decree in the great plague

  • 28 day quarantine
  • Red Cross on doors
  • ban on public meetings
  • killing street animals
• what did Thomas sydenham do mostly

  focused on the idea of observing illness and symptoms, he was a humanist
• what did Louis Pasteur do

  • germ theory
  • proved spontaneous generation wrong
• what did Robert koch do

  • found bacteria responsible for TB
  • linked germs to disease
  • found cholera bacteria and proved it was waterborne
• what did Robert koch win

  nobel peace prize 1905
• what was Florence nightingales book called and when was it released

  notes on nursing 1859
• what was the mortality rate drop from Florences work

  40 - 2%
• what did Joseph lister do

  antiseptics, carbolic acid
• what did James Simpson do

  chloroform 1847
• what did Jenner do

  smallpox vaccination
• when were the 2 public health acts?

  1948, 1975
• when did cholera arrive in Britain

  1831
• what motivated better sewage disposal

  great stink 1858
• what did John snow do

  SUGGESTED correct causes of cholera but had no evidence, broad street pump
• how many years later was Robert koch's correct evidence for cholera (as opposed to John snow not having evidence)

  30
• how many had died from cholera by 1832

  5275
• when was John snows discovery

  1854
• who began working on DNA after being inspired by Franklin and Wilkins

  crick and watson
• who launched the human genome project in 1990

  watson
• when did crick and Watson publish their paper

  1953
• who mostly worked on antibiotics

  Domagk and Ehrlich
• when was the magic bullet

  1909
• what did Alexander Fleming do

  penicillin, left a Petri dish
• who worked on Fleming's discovery?

  Florey and chain
• Who was known as the English Hippocrates?

  Thomas Syndenham
• Black Death stats in 1349

  1/3 population dead
• What was supported by King Charles II and when?

  Royal Society in 1662
• When was the printing press?

  1476
• Who hired Harvey as their personal doctor and when?

  King James I in 1618
• Why did lots of renaissance doctors ignore Harvey's theories?

  it had little use in medical treatment
• Why was the great plague seen as a punishment from God by some?

  due to switch from catholic to protestant
• what did Charles ii decree in the great plague?

  • 28 day quarantine
  • red crosses on doors
  • ban on public meetings
  • killing animals
• why did the government prefer vaccination to inoculation?

  -safer

  -cheaper