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Medicine over time - Coggle Diagram
Medicine over time
19 century
Surgery
Was limited by 3 keyobstacles: Pain, infection and blood loss.
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Seurgeons had to find awayof removing pain , of preventing infectionsand compensatingfor blood lost.
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Women in medicine
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Mary Seacole
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British hospitals rejected her, but she helped on her own.
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Public health
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Laws improved water, food quality, and made some vaccines mandatory.
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Before 1750
The ancient Greeks
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Linked to nature, each humour was connected to elements and seasons.
Greeks mixed religion and medicine, sick people went to Asclepius’ temples for healing.
Observation-based medicine , doctors studied symptoms, made diagnoses, and kept records.
Hippocrates’ influence , he set medical ethics and created the Hippocratic Oath still used today.
Illness came from humour imbalances, Greek doctors believed. This idea lasted centuries.
Middle ages
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There was a catastrophic epidemic called, The Black Death
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20 century
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WWii
Surgical Tecniques
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Better blood transfusion systems, allowing blood to be stored and quickly transported.
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Combating
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WWII involved fighting worldwide, with malaria risk in the Pacific.
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