Other Flashcards
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The Christian Hospital
designed to extend charity to those in need – poor, sick
Madness and the 4 humours
blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile
Enlightenment
New, more humane and forward-looking ideas about mental illness came from the Enlightenment.
In a new generation of asylums, moral therapy became the main way to treat people who are crazy.
Midwifery
Midwifery was an established
profession in charge of birth
and infant care
The Paris School ( 4 )
radical empiricism
pathological anatomy
clinical teaching
quantification and precision
Legacies of the Stethoscope
- changed how diseases are described and named
- the end of being a patient
- A technological sign of a “modern” doctor
how did new forms of scientific research alter the theory and practice of medicine in the 19th century
paris clinic
anesthesia and antisepsis
germ theory
miasma theory
cause ; bad air derived from decaying organic matter
zymotic theory
cause ; ferments, self reproducing chemical particles generated by decaying matter