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Britain health and the people - Coggle Diagram
Britain health and the people
disease and infection
theories of disease
4 humours
theory of opposites
supernatural
astronomy
miasma
spontaneous generation
germ theory
treatments
4 humors
monasteries
hospitals
religion
magic bullets
penicillin
germ theory
prevention
church
miasma
vaccination
NHS
public health
black death
reached england in 1348
believed to be caused by stars, god or jews
great plague
believed to be a punishment of sin or miasma
quarantine laws and plague orders
1665
cholera
sparked government action
believed to be spread by miasma
19th century
1st + 2nd public health acts
forced councils to look after the heath the the town
forced to cover up sewers
forced to supply fresh water, collect rubbish and provide street lighting
19th century
liberal social reforms
1906 school meals act, free school meals for poor children
the children and young persons act of 1908
national insurance act
NHS
free medical treatment
aneurin bevan introduced NHS in 1948
surgery and anatomy
surgery
pain
infection
bloodloss
anatomy
galen
islamic empire
vesalius
did dissections on humans
wrote the fabric of the human body
harvey
hunter
makes surgeon's a proper profesion
setup a surgeon school
helped create the first vaccine
revolutionary studies on inflammation
developed treatments for aneurysms that don't require amputation
stressed the need for observation
proved that gunshot wounds where not poisonous
taught some of the most important surgeons in history, edward jenner
modern tech