Industrial / Early Modern Medicine Flashcards

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1
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Before Pasteur’s work in ___ most scientists believed in ___ ___

A

1861
Spontaneous generation

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Who were contagionists and anti-contagionists

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Contagionists believed disease could spread through contact
Anti-contagionists believed disease spread through miasma

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In ___ Pasteur published his theory that ___ were causing infections

A

1861
Germs

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A famous doctor called ___ ___ opposed Pasteur’s theory and supported the theory of spontaneous generation

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Charlton Bastian

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What were the implications of Germ theory?

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Disproved miasma, spontaneous generation and four humours

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6
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In 19th Century Britain medical treatments became ___

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Safer

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Using Pasteur’s germ theory, a German doctor called ___ ___ explained that germs could cause ___

A

Robert Koch
Human disease

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Koch showed that not all germs were ___

A

The same

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9
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Koch identified different ___ that caused diseases
He then dyed bacteria and viewed them using ___

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Microbes
Microscopes

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10
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Scientists discovered that not all microbes…

A

Caused harmful disease

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11
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Koch and Pasteur inspired a generation of scientists called…
They were interested in…

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Microbe hunters
Diseases and how to prevent them

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How did Pasteur help develop the vaccine in 1879

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Discovered that weakened cholera germs made a chicken immune
He then created vaccines for rabies and other diseases

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What war in 1871 drove developments?

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Franco-Prussian war (between France and Germany)

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