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HEALTH AND MEDICINE OVER TIME - Coggle Diagram
HEALTH AND MEDICINE OVER TIME
Before 1750
Greeks
developed a theory four humors
folowing this theory doctors try to restore the ´balance´
vomiting or purging in a patient
bleeding them
Greek doctors belived
humors cause illness
understand why people got sick
Doctors were trained to observe patient´s symptoms then diagnose them
Hippocrates
He set down the professional standars for doctoer in his oath
this oath is still sworn by new doctors today
He left a collection of medical books and tratises
Wanted people to look for natural causes insted of magical causes
Romans
profesional medical treatment was expensive
people used family herbal
Galen belibed in the theory of the four humors
Galen thought that the humors could be balanced
They constructed sewers and publicbath houses
Prehistory
Serious illness were treated by ´medicine men´
supernatural causes, evil causes, natural causes
Spirits and gods were still seen as the ´cause of illness´
there was an emphasis on hygiene to prevent diseases
Middle ages
Christian Church's powers had grown, they set up
doctor universities
they balance humors
the most common medicine was bleeding
they also used astrology and herbal medicines
flagelants asked people to repent
The Renaissance
Andrea Vesalius
Major achievement: show Galen that they had been wrong with they theory
Perform human dissections
Wrote books which included detailed ilustrations
Left much understanding of humang anatomy
Frenchman Ambroise Paré
Major achivement was the surgery
Stopped using the boiling oil, insted he used bandages
Tie the end of arteries using silk thread to stop bleeding
William Harvey
crculation of the blood
The Enlightement
In the 1700s was the scientific revolution
Scientist start using their own observation
From the 1600s they started to use microscope
Explanation for diseases did not fit with was observed in world
19th Century
The impact of industrial revolution
As twon grew health problems too
Poor housing, overcrowding, dirty water and poor sanitation.
Key positive factors for medical process
Charles Darwin evolution had incresingly accepted
New technology aldo improved
Scientists made keybreakthtoughs
Newspapers had new theories, ideaswere posted
20 century
WW2
Surgical Techniques
Reconstructive plastic surgery with a new form of skin graft
Combating diseases
It helped fight infections and saved lives in World War 2
Penicillin
Lister used it on a wound and saw it could fight infections
Improvements to public health
Governments intervened to improve public health
WW1
Blood loss
In 1901, different blood groups were identify
Separate the liquid part of blood
French doctors developed the 'triage' system
Infections
Cutting away infected tissue had the best results
Surgery
Using skin grafts has founded plastic surgery
80 per cent of the soildiers with broken femur deid
In 1916, 80 per cent of soilders survived