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Britain, Health and the People - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Causes
        
        Rats and fleas
        
        Slum housing
        
        Poor hygiene
      - Treatments
      - Symptoms
        
        Buboes
        
        Rashes
        
        Fever
        
        Aches and pains
        
        Loss of circulation to your nose - death of tissue
      - Impacts
  - - - Had a background of anatomy
      - He was Belgian - Geminus helped the information to spread
- - - - Hung meat around the city to determine the best place to build his hospital. The quicker the meat decayed, the worse place it was
      - Stressed the need for careful observation of patients
      - Distinguished between measles and smallpox through observation and writing down symptoms
    - - Also known as Ibn SIna (980-1037)
      - Produced an encyclopaedia of medicine called 'The Canon of medicine' (translated in Latin)
      - Summarised Galen and the Hippocratic writers and combined them with Islamic writers
      - Book was amazingly comprehensive
      - Very knowledgeable on medical use of drugs
      - Drugs from Islamic world are still used today
      - Avicenna's encyclopaedia listed the medical properties of 760 different drugs
    - - First physician that realised that the heart and the lungs were connected
      - Realised that heart pumped blood around the body - disproved Galen's theory
      - Stressed the importance of clinical observation and human dissections
      - Challenged the ancient ideas
      - Drew detailed diagrams to illustrate the different body parts in his new physiological system
      - Wrote a book titled "The Comprehensive Book on Medicine"
      - Included 3 chapters on surgical techniques - how to look after the patient during and after operations