MTT - 4 20th Century Flashcards
understanding of life style factors
smoking, drinking, diet
improvements of diagnosis
- x-rays
- labs tested skin and blood
improvements of technology
- prosthetic limbs
- pacemakers
- MRI, C-T scans
why and who created Magic bullets
Ehrlich used Koch (chem dyes stain microbes) and Pasteu (Germ Theory)
about magic bullets
- attacked specific microbe causing disease
- Ehrlich tested with funding from German gov
- cure for SIPHILIS
antibiotics
penicillin
saved millions of lives and kept evolving
keyhole and microbe surgery
tiny cameras and surgical instruments made small cuts
reduced patients recovery time and reattached nerve and blood vessels
robotic surgery
remote surgeries through computers - more precise
ways and organisations of preventing disease
- NHS - (emergencies, gov funded, health care)
- Vaccines - compulsary, gov funded (HPV, measles)
- Laws against smoking and disturbing advertisement
- Rubbish collections
who discovered penicillin
Alexander flemming
how did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin
- 1928 discovered penicillin killed bacteria in Petridish
- published finding but didn’t know if effective
- Floney and chain continued research
- tested on mice and humans - MIRICAL
mass production of penicillin
- the uk was busy with war
- Us produced small scale and proved that it worked
- when Us joined war used in drug companies
- 1943 = worldwide
lung cancer symptoms and diagnosis
- coughing up blood
- breathlessness
- weight loss
- CT scan and collect cells to test
lung cancer treatment
surgery (remove tumor)
radiotherapy (shrink tumour and prevent growth)
chemotherapy (shrink tumour and prevent return)
