treatment in industrial britian

• why did disease understanding not progress?


  -drs reluctant to try new methods

  
  

  -hospitals relied on charity funding-little money for research

  
  

  -public health stayed constant until introduction of health acts
• what was disease believed to be caused by in the 19th century?


  spontaneous gen

  miasma
• what led to medical progress in the 19th century?

  -supernatural/religious ideas about disease dying out

  
  

  -developments of antiseptics and anaesthetic led to improvements in surgery

  
  

  -more hospitals built (Florence nightingale)ideas made them cleaner

  
  

  -Gov began to take more actions and introduce public health laws
• what were hospitals like in the 19th century?

  1)Overcrowded, crammed with patients with open wounds.

  2) Workers used poor hygienic practices.

  3) Infections ran unchecked.
• what alternatives to hospital treatment were there?


  -home visit from doc-expensive

  
  

  -patients family took care of them at home
• what type of hospitals were there in the 19th century?

  infirmaries-towns and cities

  funded by charity

  
  

  specialist hospitals- children's ect
• how did florence nightingale change hospitals?


  -implemented measures to improve hygiene in hospitals

  -cleaning surfaces/washing bedding ect

  
  

  -made them cleaner and safer
• how did Florence nightingale change nursing?


  -gave nurses formal training

  
  

  -made nursing popular profession

  
  

  -1860-opened nightingale school for nurses