Medicine through time

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    • What were the ideas on the cause of illness during the middle ages 1250-1500 ?
      -God
      -4 humours
      -Miasma
      -Astrology
      -Supernatural ideas
    • What was treatment of diseases like during the middle ages?

      -God
      -Balancing 4 humours
      -Astrology
      -Supernatural
      -Herbal remedies

      -Surgery
      -Barber surgeons
    • What methods were used to prevent disease in the middle ages ?
      -Praying
      -Fasting
      -Charms
      -Regimin sanitatis(diet)
    • How were the sick cared for in the middle ages ?
      -Care not cure
      -Church hospitals
    • Who were the key people and what were the key events in the middle ages?
      -Galen(Theory of opposites)
      -Hippocrates( 4 humours )
      -The Black Death 1348/9
    • What new discoveries or inventions occurred during the middle ages?
      None(very limited)
    • What was believed caused diseases during the renaissance period 1500-1700?
      -God
      -4 humours
      -Miasma
      -Supernatural
    • What was treatment of diseases like during the Renaissance?
      -God
      -4 humours
      -Herbal remedies
      -Supernatural
      -Alchemy(chemical science)
      -Transference
      Surgery
      -barber surgeons
    • What methods were used to prevent diseases during the renaissance period?
      -Prayer
      -Quarantine
      -Pomander(scents in a bag)
      -Regimin Santitas (dieting)
      -Moderation
    • How were the sick cared for during the renaissance ?
      -Decline in hospitals
      -Pox houses
    • Who were the key people and what were the key events during the renaissance period ?
      -Thomas Sydenham( wrote about importance of practical work)
      -Andreas Vesalius ( dissections and wrote the fabric of the human body that included detailed drawings and annotations of the human body
      -William Harvey( discovered circulation of blood)
      The Great Plague 1666
    • What new inventions or discoveries were made during the renaissance period?
      -The Printing press
      -Discovery of blood circulation
      -Galens theories proved wrong
    • What was believed caused diseases during the Industrial Revolution 1700-1900?
      -Miasma
      -Spontaneous generation
      -Germ theory from 1861
    • What was treatment of disease like during the industrial revolution?
      -Herbal remedies
      -Medicines
      Surgery
      -Antiseptic
      -Anaesthetics
      -Aseptic surgery
    • What methods were used to prevent diseases during the industrial revolution?
      -Vaccinations from the 1800s
      -Public health acts 1875 and 1848
    • How were the sick cared for during the industrial revolution?
      -Cottage hospitals
      -Voluntary hospitals
      -Aseptic surgery
      -Cleanliness and sanitation
      -Nurse training
    • Who were the key people and what were the key events during the industrial revolution?
      -Florence Nightingale(Crimean war, massively improved cleanliness and conditions in hospitals
      -John Snow( realised cholera was found in water from the broad street pump)
      -James Simpson(discovered chloroform and used it to produce anaesthetics)
      -Joseph Lister( carbolic acid and used it to produce antiseptic which prevented germs being spread)
      -Edward Jenner (developed a vaccine to cure smallpox when injecting patients with cow pox)
      Cholera outbreak 1831,1849 and 1854
    • What new discoveries or inventions were made during the industrial revolution?
      -Germ theory 1861
      -Chloroform
      -Carbolic acid
      -Vaccinations
      -X-rays first introduced
    • What was believed to cause illness during the Modern Age 1900-Present?
      -Germ theory
      -DNA
    • How are diseases treated during the modern age?
      -Antibiotics
      -Pills
      -Chemotherapy
      Surgery
      -Antiseptic
      -Anaesthetic
      -Microsurgery
    • What method are used to prevent diseases during the modern age?
      -NHS
      -Vaccinations
      -Scans
    • How were the sick cared for during the modern age?/ How had care improved
      -NHS
      -GP research
      -Nurse training
    • Who were the key people and what were the key events during the modern age of medicine?
      -Alexander Fleming( discovered penicillin on accident)
      -Florey and Chain( in 1940 developed penicillin into a useable and mass produced antibiotic)
      -Watson and Crick(discovered the structure of DNA and it was in every human)
      -Bevan( chief architect involved in the setting up of the NHS)
    • What new discoveries or inventions were made during the modern age?
      -Magic bullets e.g. Salvarsan 606 and Prontosil( artificial antibodies that would attack infections without harming the body)
      -Penicillin
      -DNA
      -Transplants
      -Radio/chemo therapy to treat cancer
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