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Medicine over time - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Infections
        
        Caused by
        
        Deadly gas
        
        Doctors
        
        Soaking the wound in saline
        
        Cutting away infected issue
        
        Bullets and shrapnel
        
        Attemps were made to find new ways of fighting infections
        
        Took infection deep into the body
      - Blood loss
        
        severe injuries
        
        Transfusions
        
        were performed on the spot from the donor to the patient
        
        blood could be stored without clotting
        
        Triage system
        
        to treat mass casualties
        
        X-rays
        
        were used to find bullets and shrapnel in patients
      - Surgery
        
        New techniques to repair bones appeared
        
        Soldiers suffered injuries
        
        Harold Gillies
        
        Known as the father of modern plastic surgery
        
        Innovations developed in the First World War had a massive impact on survival rates
    - - surgical techniques
        
        Developments in the treatment of severe burns
        
        Biogenic agents
      - combating diseases
        
        Threat of malaria
        
        Neil Hamilton
        
        experimented on volunteers and found that one tablet of Mepacrine a day could limit the spread of malaria
        
        German scientists
        
        Used Atrebin against malaria
        
        Soldiers
        
        were immunized against tetanus
      - improvements to public health.
        
        Goverment
        
        Offer benefits for all people
        
        Intervened to improve public health
        
        Welfare state
        
        Provide free health care
        
        Education
        
        Housing and employment
        
        Much slum housing were destroyed by bombing
        
        There were an acute of
        
        Housing shortage
        
        Food and fuel shortages
        
        Lack of clean water across post-war
        
        Many countries were economically devasted and could not afford urgent medical treatments
      - Penicillin
        
        Lister
        
        Used mould to treat an infected wound
        
        Didn't document his work
        
        Was rediscovered by Alexander Fleming