medicine

• when was the germ theory?

  1850 - 1920
• what was injured soldiers carried away on?

  stretcher bearers
• what are the four humours?

  black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood
• what is the artichella?

  a book of the work of Galen and the Hippocrates
• how many books did Galen write?

  350 books on medicine
• what is the Regimen Sanitatais?

  public health measures-‘don’t make eye contact with the sick’
• what did John Snow find?

  cholera-hole in the sewer pump in Broad Street
• what did Andreas Vesalius help with?

  anatomy, corrected 300 mistakes made by Galen, wrote 2 books about the human body
• what are some treatment and prevention methods used during the Black Death?

  quarantine, bloodletting using leeches, lavender to prevent miasma, spreading herbs
• what did Apothecaries sell?

  remedies and herbs
• what did William Harvey discover?

  how blood pumps around the body, corrected a lot of Galen’s theories
• what was the Renaissance?

  Ancient Greek and Roman ideas became fashioned, seen as a revival and classical learning with wisdom
• who is Ambroise Paré?

  french barber surgeon, anatomist, invented several surgical instruments, found about the gunshot wound
• what was the RAMC and what does it stand for?

  RAMC stands for Royal Army Medical Corps. Was part of the British army and responsible for medical care