Industrial Medicine (1750-1900)

Question 1

CHANGE / CAUSE:
What previously accepted cause of diseases were no longer accepted in the Industrial period?

Answer 1

God
Planets and Stars
Four Humours

Question 2

INDIVIDUALS:
What what was Edward Jenner’s contribution to medicine in the Industrial period?

Answer 2

Vaccine for smallpox
Didn’t understand why it worked

Question 3

INDIVIDUALS:
What what was James Simpson’s contribution to medicine in the Industrial period?

Answer 3

pain relief - anaesthetic - chloroform
often overdosed = death = black period for surgery
until John Snow invented an inhaler

Question 4

INDIVIDUALS:
What what was John Snow’s contribution to medicine in the Industrial period?

Answer 4

1875
Broad Street Pump
cause of cholera - contaminated water - sewage in drinking water
government build sewers (Bazalgette)

Question 5

INDIVIDUALS:
What what was Louis Pasteur’s contribution to medicine in the Industrial period?

Answer 5

1861
cause of disease - germs
government pass 1875 public health act

Question 6

INDIVIDUALS:
What what was Joseph Lister’s contribution to medicine in the Industrial period?

Answer 6

preventing spread of infection
antiseptic
carbolic spray

Question 7

INDIVIDUALS:
What what was Robert Koch’s contribution to medicine in the Industrial period?

Answer 7

links specific bacteria with specific disease

Question 8

INDIVIDUALS:
What what was Florence Nightingale’s contribution to medicine in the Industrial period?

Answer 8

1850’s
hospital reform
Crimean war
fresh air, clean sheets, in beds, professional nursing,
didn’t understand about germs

Question 9

CHANGE:
How did the government change their approach to vaccinations during the late 1800’s?

Answer 9

encouraged 1850s
then compulsory 1871

Question 10

CHANGE:
How did surgery improve during the Industrial period?

Answer 10

infection prevented - antiseptics - carbolic spray (Lister)
pain prevented - anaesthetic - chloroform (Simpson)