Prevention Flashcards
1
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Middle Ages:
religion
A
- processions
- pay indulgences
- pray for forgiveness
- whipping themselves
2
Q
Middle Ages:
lifestyle
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- don’t eat too much
- bathe in urine three times a day
- carry sweet smelling herbs
3
Q
Middle Ages:
alchemy
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- gullible people gave lots of money to alchemists
- mixtures of distilled vinegar
- medicines containing poisons (mercury) to clear system
4
Q
Middle Ages:
soothsayers
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- see the future predict why you’d get ill
- charms to protect against evil
5
Q
Middle Ages:
Mother Shipton
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- soothsayer
- 15th Century
- petrifying well with mineral rich water
6
Q
Middle Ages:
doctors
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- apothecaries with herbal remedies
- barber surgeons set broken limbs
- physicians trained in Italy or Paris
7
Q
Early Modern:
John Dee
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- alchemist
- 1580 onwards
- mathematician
- studied how to communicate with angels
8
Q
Early Modern:
fads
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- vegetarianism
- teetotalism
9
Q
Early Modern:
Cold Water Treatment
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- Brighton and Bognor Regis to drink and swim in sea
- rich had plunge pools in garden
- eating cool foods such as cucumber
- cold water baths
10
Q
Modern 18th and 19th Century:
childbed fever
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- infection after childbirth for mothers
- rural areas suffered less
11
Q
Modern 18th and 19th Century:
Alexander Gordon
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- 1700s
- childbed fever
- medical practioners should wash clothes and hands between patients in chlorinated water
- published 1795
12
Q
Modern 18th and 19th Century:
scientific methods
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- microscope
- stethoscope
- printing press
- scientific papers
13
Q
Modern 18th and 19th Century:
James Lind
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- discovered cause of scurvy
- suggested sailors should be given lime juice or fresh juice
14
Q
Modern 18th and 19th Century:
John Snow
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- 1854 cholera outbreak in London
- infection grouped round Broad Street pumping station
- took handle off pump preventing those from using it
15
Q
Modern 18th Century:
smallpox
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- killing 30% to 60% of victims
- blind or disfigured with scars
- 1796 killed at least 35000
