The Renaissance
charity hospitals
staffed by volenteers and accesible
high number of poor and sick
not everybody received it
reserved for people that needed it more
John Hunter was elected as master of anatomy at surgeons hall understanding of anatomy
human teeth
bone growth
venereal diseases
digestion
the royal society and the role of the church
the role of the church
the royal society
meeting place for educational people who were interested in different aspects of science
King Charles II attended the royal society
they had ideas that went against the church
the printing press was invented in 1450 so ideas could be more widespread and faster meaning that they didn't have control over what was written and who could see it
more people were learning to read and write so they could also access information and make their own judgement on something
the church felt like they had less control
the plague
it resurfaced in 1665
there was a national order to kill cats and dogs
they painted a red cross on the doors of the people who had the plague
Louis Pasteur and the germ theory
last major outbreak of the plague
his discoveries
original theory
maggots apeared
micro-organisms created when something was destroyed
spontaneous generation
misma
he discovered that germs were not the product of decay they were responsible for the decay
the experiment
he put mountain air into a flask and infused it
he put mountain air in another flask and infused it
this did not contaminate the water
this contaminated the water
disease
he discovered that the disease that was killing silk worms was also killing humans
He theorised that the same bacteria was infecting humans aswell
he made vaccines for a chicken disease he gave them a dose of a weaker version of the disease and discovered that the disease that he was giving the chickens gave them immunity from the disease and therefor did not kill the chickens
smallpox
Robert Koch
He used agar jelly instead of water so you could see the germs and microbes more easily without them moving around
he infected 20 mice with the microbe that he beleived was anthrax and it turns out it was
he did not discover the cure for it but he did provide a clear method between a microbe and a corisponding disease
it started with a rash that turned into
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