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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