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Health and Medicine over time - Coggle Diagram
Health and Medicine over time
before 1750
Greeks
believes/theories
illnesses were caused by having an imbalance of the four body humours
detect the illness by only watching the patient
the treatments were vomiting, puring or bleeding.
if treatments failed, the patient would be sent to the Asclepius temple
the most significant doctor was Hippocrates
he wanted people to look natural causes of illness, rather than looking for supernatural causes and praying to gods
Romans
Hippocrates ideas continued
medical treatment was expensive, so families used herbs and they prayed to gods
Galen
followed Hippocrates methods
believed the theory of the four humours
new idea
humours could be rebalanced using opposites.
made dissections to study the human body
to keep cities and people clean
constructing sewers, aqueducts that brought in clean water and public bath- houses
Prehistory
treated by medicine men
believed causes were
supernatural causes
vengeful gods
evil spirits
treatments
rituals
praying
herbs
trephining
Middle ages
believes
the movement of the stars and planets
making god angry
people thoutht that diseases were produced by:
natural causes
poor sanitation
potions in the air
looking into the eyes of a sick person
black death
killed over 40 percent of the population
the flagellants asked people to repent
treatments
astrology
herbal medicine
bleeding
The Renaissance
Andreas Vesalius
show that Galen had been wrong
dissections
Ambroise Paré
surgery
bandages
tie the ends of the arteries with silk thread
no antiseptics and disinfectants
infections into the wound
William Harvey
circulation of the blood
heart acted as a pump
blood didn´t burnt up
recirculated in body
The Enlightenment
scientific explanations
scientific revolution
observations and experiments
1700s
invention of microscope
used to observe
the Catholic Church no longer dominated education
had strongly supported the ideas of Galen
19th century
the impact of the Industrial Revolution
towns and health problems grew
owercrowding
poor sanitation
dirty water
positive factors for medical progress
poor housing
newspapers
people could know what happened around the country
improvements in hygiene and nursing
20th century
WWI
Blood loss
different blood groups were identified
blood could be separated from cells
'triage' system developed by french doctors
Infections
cut away infected tissue and soak the wound in saline
Surgery
surgeons used skin grafts
Harold Gillies
father of modern plastic surgery
WWII
Surgical techniques
treatment of severe burns
plastic surgery
blood transfusion system
Combating diseases
mosquitoes
malaria
Atebrin was effective
Penicillin
treat an infected wound
Improvements to public health
government offered benefits for all people after the war