health and the people

• what did Galen do?

  Galen used dissections on pigs to prove the brain controlled the body, not the heart and he published books
• why did the church like Galen?

  he supported the theory that god designed humans
• what did the canon of medicine book contain?

  it contained records of arab medicine throughout the dark ages
• how did the church prevent medical progresson?

  the church banned dissection and did not allow people to go against the work of galen or hipporactes
• what did hippocrates do?

  they created the four humors
• what did a zodiac chart show?

  when to pick herbs, how to treat a patient and diagnose illness
• ways of repenting sins as a cure?

  pilgrimage

  praying

  giving money to the church
• when was the first black death?

  1348-1949
• when was the great plague?

  1665
• what was the renaissance?

  rebirth of art and learning
• what did versalius do?

  he dissected humans and was a university teacher
• what did pare do?

  used ligatures to tie blood vessels which reduces the risk of infection
• what book did harvey publish?

  fabric of the human body which had detailed pictures of the anatomy of the human body
• how did jenner discover the cure for small pox?

  injected dead versions of cow pox pathogens which caused the patient to be immune to small pox
• what did koch do?

  identified specific germs that caused specific diseases by staining them under a microscope
• arguments against the NHS?

  1-thought costs would be huge

  2-doctors wanted to be independent

  3-threatened to go on strike
• arguments for the NHS?

  1-government control so people agreed

  2-free medical care

  3-would receive government money not charity
• when was the great stink?

  1858
• what caused the great stink?

  caused by dry weather and build up of pollution in the thames
• what did chadwick do?

  1-his report showed heath in countrysides were better than cities

  2-suggested governments should pass law to improve hygiene

  3-cholera outbreak of 1848 led to the government to pass public health act
• what was the beveridge report? states the government had a duty of care for all not just the poor or unemployed
• what did the printing press do?

  helped ideas be spread easily and cheaply
• what did hunter do?

  performed dissections and invented how to treat injuries which prevented amputations
• what did harvey do?

  theorised the circulation of blood and understanding of anatomy
• what did pasteur do?

  discovered germ theory in 1861 and theorised that microbes in air caused decay
• what did florence nightingale do?

  studied to become a nurse and helped in the crimean war, also wrote notes on nursing in 1859
• what did koch do?

  found microbes caused illness
• what did lister do?

  tried carbolic acid spray and found it was effective
• what was the public health act?

  made laws on hygiene compulsory
• factors for medicine?

  war

  individuals

  chance

  religion