medicine - Industrial revelotion Flashcards
(43 cards)
when was the vaccination against small pox created and by who?
1798 - Jenner
Who discovered chloroform and anaesthetics and when?
1847 - Simpson
Who discovered cholera and when?
1854 - snow
Who developed nursing homes and hospitals and when?
1850’s - nightingale
What did Pasteur discover and when?
1861 - germ theory and vaccinations
who discovered the use of carbolic spray / antiseptics in 1867?
Lister
when did the second public health act take place?
1875
what year did Koch discover that certain germs caused certain disease?
1882
what is amputation?
The removal of a limb in surgery
What are anaesthetics?
Drugs given to produce unconsciousness before and during surgery e.g chloroform
what is anthrax?
Disease mostly affecting animals
What are antibodies?
A substance produced in the body to fight disease
what are antiseptics?
chemicals used to destroy bacteria and prevent disease
what is a cesspit?
A storage of sewage
What is contagion?
The passing of a disease from one person to another.
what is inoculation?
putting a low disease in the body to help fight against a more serious attack of the disease.
what is ligature?
A thread used to tie blood vessels during operation
what are potent medicines?
A medicine usually sold for a profit made with ingredients that have no medical benefit.
What is sterilising?
To destroy all living micro organisms
How do vaccines work?
A small dose of an inactive or dead disease is injected into the body and the antibodies detect the disease and work to fight it off.
Once it as fought it off it will now retain the information of how to get rid of the disease and so if the person gets that illness the body and quickly kill it off as it knows what to do.
How did Simpson test the affect of Chloroform?
He inhaled chemicals with a group of people and studied the effects of each chemical.
who was Edwin Chadwick, what did he believe?
A civil servant who believed that cleaner towns and cities will lead to less disease and better health.
What did Chadwick eventually create?
improved sewers
What was the result of the 1848 public health act?
A national board of health set up.
death rate where high in towns
meant they could collect taxes
Allowed the appointment of medical officers