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History - Key Features of Medicine in 1700 - 1900 - Coggle Diagram
History - Key Features of Medicine in 1700 - 1900
Discoveries
Vaccines for smallpox
Germ theory
Germs cause disease
Antiseptics (acid)
Continuities
Church mocked some discoveries e.g. vaccines
Quacks
Miasma still believed
Wealthy got richer
New ideas and attitudes
Government interested in public health
Concerns about poverty/alcohol + disease
More hospitals and training
Doctors/surgeons properly trained
Ventilation + cleaner hospitals
Reform for the poor - sanitation
London swewage system built
People
Edward Jenner "immunisation"
Elizabeth Garrett - first female actor
John Hunter - surgery is science
Louis Pasteur + Robert Koch
Joseph Lister
Florence Nightangle
Edwin CHadwick