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MEDICINE OVER TIME - Coggle Diagram
MEDICINE OVER TIME
20th century
WWII
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Combating diseases
The Second World War was fought across the globe, with the main theaters of fighting in Europe, North Africa, and Asia
The war in the pacific brought hundreds of thousands of troops into contact with mosquitoes and the threats of malaria
The Australian doctor Neil Hamilton Fairley experimented on volunteers and found that one tablet of Mepacrine a day could limit the spread of malaria.
19th century
Vaccination
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The Chinese had observed that some people who had survived a mild form of smallpox did not die when there was a new epidemic
Smallpox was a terrible disease and there were outbreaks across the world periodically for centuries.
Germ theory
Louis Pateur was a French scientist who was asked by a brewing company to investigaste why their vats of alcohol were going bad
Koch studied bacteria in infected organs and developed a method of isolating and growing bacteria to observe.
The nineteenth century saw many breakthroughs in the understanding of diseases and how to prevent at treat them.
He observed that one type of micro-organisms was multiplying fast and may have been the cause of the problem
But Pasteur was a scientist and not a doctor, so his ideas were taken forward into medicine by a German doctor called Robert Koch
Women in medicine
Mary Seacole during the Crimean war ( From 1853 to 1856 ) had an important impact on nursing and the cleanliness of hospitals
By nineteenth century , woman still held the traditional roles in medicine they had played throughout history.
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Surgery
Pain had always been a part of surgery and therefore doctors attempted to perform operations as quickly as possible
Some historians suggest that surgeons in America were more ready to try out new techniques on black slaves
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Infection
He experimented with carbolic acid and found that is this was sprayed over a wound during surgery it would heal better.
In the 1840s a Hungarian doctor called Ignaz Semmelweis was concerned by the mortality of babies , specially those delivered by medical students
A British surgeon, Joseph Lister, studied gangrene and infections in wounds.
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Doctors in that period did not wash their equipment after operating, reuse bandages and did not spread diseases and infections
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During the Crimean war were a British nurser, Florence Nightingale, came to prominence for asserting that cleanliness was critical to the recovery of injure soldiers
Blood loss
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However, blood loss remained a key problem in surgery.
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Public health
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in Britain, sewers were built in cities to remove sewage and to improve water supplies
18th century
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During this scientific revolution, modern science envolved into what we understand it to be today.
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Before 1750
The romans
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The most famouse doctor was Galen, who lived in the second century CE.He was interested in anotomy.
humours rebalanced using opposites, for example taking pepper or something hot when you had a cold.
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The ancient greeks
However, they also had some new ideas about what caused sickness and how it could be threat.
During an illness body fluids were usually expelled-phlegm, blood, black bile and yellow bile.
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The renaissance
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Paré stopped using the boiling oil as he did no think this worked, and instead would use bandages.
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The middle ages
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In Europe a long period of civil and regional war, goverments had collapsed.
They attemped to balance the humours, as they had done in the ancient times.
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Acient time
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In the ancient egypt, for more than a thousand years.
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