Britain Health and the People

Modern World

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Industrial Revolution

Liberal Social Reforms

1906 - 1914

New world

Focused on the Young, Old, Sick and Unemployed. Reforms to help improve general health and wellbeing across all groups.

1906 - Education (provision of meals) Act

1909 - Labour Exchange set up

1908 - Old Age Pension Act

1911 - National Insurance Act (Pt.1)

Fleming, Florey & Chain

Fleming discovered Penicillin mold, however didn't do anything with it

Florey and Chain worked on Penicillin, and found its use as an antibiotic. Succeeded and saved millions of lives, particularly during WWII.

Anatomy and the circulation of blood

The invention of printing meant that medical textbooks, with accurate sketches of the human body, could now be produced more cheaply and this helped ideas to spread rapidly.

William Harvey

Andreas Versailles

The Great Plague

New weapons, eg gunpowder forced battlefield doctors to think about new ways to treat wounds.

1665-1666

Since no central health care system existed, It caused mass death and suffering (1/4 of London's population died)(aprox. 100 thousand)

Last major Bubonic Plague Epidemic to occur in England.

Watson & Crick

Helped majorly by Rosalind Franklin.

He insisted that his medical students should perform dissections to find out how the human body worked.

Responsible for the discovery of the Double Helix, better known as DNA.

A local judge took an interest in Vesalius' work. He allowed Vesalius to use the bodies of executed criminals for dissection. Vesalius was now able make repeated dissections of humans.

Aneurin Bevan

Created concept of 'Cradle to the Grave care'

In the industrial revolution the first every vaccination was performed this was a small pox vaccination at this time it was on of the biggest killer but the scientists Jenner found out that milk mads were not getting small pocs but they were getting a less fatal for of pocs called cow pocs Jenner found out that this made you immune to small pocs as long as you have had cow pocs and he rested out this theory on a child and I worked this was all in the year 1796

Founded the National Health Service (NHS)

Shaped and founded the Free Healthcare System we take advantage of daily

In 1628 he published An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals. In this book he proved that the heart acted like a pump and was responsible for recirculating the blood around the body.

Before Harvey, doctors accepted Galen’s idea that new blood was manufactured by the liver to replace blood that had been burned up by the muscles.