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Medicine in the 18th and 19th century (Causes (At the start of this period…
Medicine in the 18th and 19th century
Healers
Healers remained practically the same
Nurses
Doctors
Surgeons
Chemists/ apothecaries
Causes
At the start of this period, people still believed the miasma caused illness
People no longer believed that the planets caused disease
Louis Pasteur developed his germ theory, which was the answer to what caused disease
Treatments
Old treatments still existed to some extent
Bleeding
Purging
Honey
Scientific breakthroughs provided help
Antiseptics
New methods of nursing
Nightingale school of Nursing
New, well designed hospitals - pavilion
Prevention
Treatment of wounds
Wounds were now properly cleaned with carbolic acid and bandaged to prevent infection
Public health acts
A board of health was set up
This improved water supplies
They introduced medical offiers and other officials to check the qualityof hygiene
Public Health Act - 1875. Councils had to provide clean water, sewers, public toilets, street lighting and public parks.
Government makes vaccination compulsory
Vaccination against small pox
Vaccination against typhus
Breakthroughs
Ideas
Identifying bacteria that caused disease
Jon Snow proving cholera travelled in water
Germ Theory
Inventions
Florence Nightingale lowering the death rate in hospitals by cleaning and proper sanitiation
Antiseptics
Anaesthetics