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Medicine stuff
Anaesthetics
previous anesthetics - Opium, alchahol, ether, mandrake
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queen victorai used it whilst birthing her 8th child after this many more decided to use during childbirth
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despite this it lead to a rise in deaths as patients were exposed to the doctors unclean scrubs for a longer period of time
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Florence nightingale
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She improved ward hygeine such as improved ventillation and clean bed sheets, bed space, nurse training
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By 1900 64,000 trined nurses in britain
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public raised £44,000 to help train nurses
Vacccinations
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In 1796 Jenner tested his theory on a boy named James Phipps with pus from the sores of sarah nelmes,a milkmaid with cowpox.
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Germ theory
Louis pastuer was employed to investigate why the fruit in the beer was going off. he proved that there were germs in the air.
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Aseptic surgery
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Aseptic surgery reduced the need for carbolic spray, which is unpleasant on your skin or to breathe in- many doctors and nurses didnt like to use it
Inoculation
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First intorduced into britian by Lady mary Montagu in 1718, a lady from turkey
Innoculation involved making an incision into the patients arm and soaking it in pus ftaking from the swelling of sombody who was already infected
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Antiseptics
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Had seen carbolic spray used as a sewage treatment, he tried this in an operating theatre and found it reduced infection rates
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penicilllin
flemming published his findings in articles between 1929 and 1931 however nobody funded further research so he couldnt progress any further
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