Medicine

Question 1

Who was versaillius and what did he do?

Answer 1

1. He began to do dissections
2. He wrote fabrica
3. He corrected 300 of Galen’s mistakes
4. Taught people to learn from actual dissections rather than just books

Question 2

Who was Sydenham and what did he do?

Answer 2

1. Wrote observations medicae
2. Categorised disease
3. Taught that you have to treat using symptoms rather than relying on the humours

Question 3

What were some ideas of causes of disease in the medieval period?

Answer 3

1. Punishment from God
2. The four humours
3. Miasma
4. Astrology

Question 4

What were some ideas on causes of desires in the 1700s

Answer 4

1. Miasma
2. Punishment from God ( although less so)
3. Contaigon

Question 5

Treatments in medieval england

Answer 5

1.Herbal remedies
2. Bleeding
3. Prayer

Question 6

Who was Edward jenner

Answer 6

1. Small pox guy!!
2. Gave people cow pox to treat small pox
3. It worked, but he didn’t understand
4. Saved millions of lives
5. At first there was opposition

Question 7

Who was James Simpson?

Answer 7

Chloroform guy!!

1. Showd Chloroform was effective
2. Lots of opposition as Chloroform originally cause more death

Question 8

Who was John snow?

Answer 8

Cholera guy!!
1. Mapped out which water taps had cholera
2. However governments still didn’t make laws
3. Also invented the chloroform mask

Question 9

Who was Harvey?

Answer 9

Blood guy!
1. Discovered that blood circulates around the body from the heart, when galen though all blood was produced in the liver

Question 11

Who was Louis pasteur?

Answer 11

Germ theory guy (1861)
Discovered that bacteria causes disease

Question 12

Robert Koch

Answer 12

Identified specific bacteria and caused big killers to be cured like tuberculosis and typhoid

Question 13

Florence nightingale

Answer 13

Improved conditions of hospitals like
1. Ventilation
2. Cleanliness
3. Training

Question 14

What were the public health acts

Answer 14

Laws that said it was compulsory to provide sewerage clean water supplies and appoint medical officors

Question 15

What were the problems with public health?

Answer 15

1. Overcrowding. Houses had to be put up with ought care and ppl had to live near factories with bad smoke
2. Water cleanliness + cholera
3. The first public health act was not mandatory (however the second one was)

Question 16

What was laissez-faire?

Answer 16

Thw idea that people should be left to their own devices