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Health and Medicine Over Time - Coggle Diagram
Health and Medicine Over Time
Before 1750
Romans
Hippocrates ideas continued
Galen
humours rebalanced using 'opposites'
dissections
famous roman doctor
Public Health
Keep cities and people clean
Middle Ages
Christian Church's power had grown
Black Death
causes unknown
over 40 per cent of the population dead
Flagellants
Appease a vengful God
whip themselves
town to town
atone sins
midwives
different treatments
astrology
herbal medicine
balance humours
Greeks
Observations: during illness body fluids were expelled
Cause of illness
imbalance of humors
Treatment of illness
Restore the 'balance'
Bleeding
Purging
Vomiting
Body fluids
Black bile
Yellow bile
Blood
Phlegm
Pre history
serious illnesses treated by "medicine men"
supernatural causes or natural causes
ritual, prayer, herbs and basic surgery as treatment
The Renaissence
Vesalius
His work led a better understanding of human anatomy
Believed it was important for doctors to perform human dissections
Major achievement
Galen had been wrong about elements of human anatomy
Harvey
circulation system
blood re-circulates
heart acts as a pump
blood carried away by the arteries
blood returned by te veins
Paré
Replaced
Using the boiling oil with using bandages
Couterizing the wound by tiying the end of arteries
Major achievement
in surgery
1700s
The Enlightenment
Proving old ideas were wrong
New invención of observation: the microscope
Focus on scientific explanations
Catholic Church no longer determinated education
Scientists
Used their own observations and experiments to gain knowledge
Were proving old ideas wrong
Old explanations for diseases didn't fit with natural world
19th century
towns grew, so did problems
Overcrowding
Dirty water
Poor housing
Poor sanitation
Technology made welfare more deadly
New techniques and practices were developed
Dye that could kil bacteria
Hygene and nursing improved
Animals are made up of cells
Grey's anatomy
Used to study human anatomy
20th centrury
WWI
Infections
Cut away infected tissue
Soak the wound, saline
Surgery
Repair broken bones
Skin grafts
Plastic sugery
Survival rates increased
Blood loss
Different blood groups identified
Blood could be separated (the liquid part from the corpuscles)
The 'triage' system was developed
WWII
Penicilin
treat an infected wound
1945, increased survival rates
Surgical techniques
treatment of severe burns
plastic surgery
blood transfussion system
Combating diseases
prevention of malaria
mosquitoes
Public health
free health care
housing
education
employment