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Health and medicine over time - Coggle Diagram
Health and medicine over time
Before 1750
Ancient Greeks
They belived the body had fourth fluids
Yellow bile, blood, phlegm, black bile
Following this theory, doctors try to help balance the humors by...
inducing vomiting
puring in a patient
bleeding the patient
Ilnesses were caused by having an imbalance of the four humors
Greek doctors...
belived they could see the humors causing the illness and thus understand why people got sick
were trained to observe patient's symptoms and then diagnose
Hippocretes
Hippoctrates oath
Prehistory
Medicine man
It was belived tht ilnesses had...
Superatural causes
Vengeful gods
Evil spirits
Natural causes
Injuries
Insect bites
There was emphasis on hygiene to prevent disease
Middle ages
The Christian Chuech's power had grown
Black death
Womens were not perrmitied to go to univrsity and could not train to be profesiona doctors
Groups called the "flagellants"
Romans
Galen
He wrote 60 books
He was interesed in anatomy
He carried out dissections
Public health
To keep their cities and people clean they built...
Sewers
Aqueducts that brought in clean water
Pubic bath-houses
During romans era, Hippocrates' ideas continued
The renaissance
Medical breakthroughts
Andreas Vesalius
He showed that Galen had been wrong about elements of human anatomy
Human dissection
Better understanding of human anatomy
Ambarois Pere
Sugery
20 years with the army treating batlle wounds
He stopped using the boiling oil
He started using bandages
William Harvey
Circulation of blood in the human anatomy
The Enlightment
1700s
scientific revolution
Scientist were proving old ideas wrong
Old explanations for diseases did not fit with what was observed in the natural world
The microscope was invented
Used to observe
The catholic church no longer dominated education
This was important as it had strongly supported the ideas of Galen
1900th century
As towns grew, so health problems grew with it
Poor housing
Overcrowding
Dirty water
Poor sanitation
Key positive factors foor medical progress
A dye was discovered
20th century
WWI
Blood loss
Different groups of blood were identified
It was discoverd that the liquid part of the blood could be searated to store it
The "triage" system was developed
Sugery
Surgeons used skin;indeed, their work was the foundation for plastic surgery
Infection
Cutting away infected tissue and soaking the would in saline
WWII
Penicillin
Treat injuries
A lot of penicillin was produced
Penicillin was developed
Surgical techniques
Development on the treatment of severe burns
Reconstructive plastic surgery
Sophisticated blood transfusion system
Combating diseases
Mosquitoes
Malaria
Improvements to public health
Free health care
Education
Housing
Employment