treatment of diseases Flashcards

1
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what were the 4 sectpors of traeting dieases in the middle ages

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religous treatment
four humours
herbal remedies
supernatural

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how would you treat diseases with religion in the middle ages

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you could pray , fats , go on pilgrames

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how could you treat the 4 humours in the midlle ages

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bloodletting 
cupping 
leeching
bathing
purging
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4
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what is cupping

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putting warm cups onto open cuts to draw out the blood

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what is purging

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swallowing a mixture of herbs and animal fat to make you sikc

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what did they use as antiseptic for surgery in the middle ages

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they used wine

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what did they use as anathetsics in the middle ages

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opium or helmock

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problems with medieval surgery

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surgeyies were filthy as they didin’t have an aidea that dirt carried diease
they didn’t stop infections

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what did surgeons lack in the middle ages

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they weren’t trianed and new little about the anatomy

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10
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hwo would poeple treat the ides that the supernatural caused dieases n the middle ages

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y would use trepanning to release demaons

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what were the treatment of diease in the renaissance epriod

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transference 
supernatural
bleeding and purging
chemical cures
herbal remedies
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12
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how would people treat diseases using chemical cures in the renaissance period

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the college of physicians suggested that 112 chemicals where used to treat 2140 illness

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what was transference in the middle ages

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that illness could be transferred from a patient to something else

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what ideas of prevention of diseases remained in the renaissance from the medieval

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bleeding and purging , supernatural , religious ,

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what was the chnage is treating miasma in the renaissance period

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people still had sweet smelling herbs but they focused on removing sewage from the streets

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16
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what were the two dates of the public health act

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1848 1st public health act

2nd public health act 1875

17
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changes in attidude to for the governemnt to public heatlth

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they changed ffrom havign a lassiez fiare government to having a more Hands on government

18
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what did the 2nd public health act cause not to happen

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it caused for cholera not to come back again

19
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name 5 things that the piblic health act entotled

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clean water 
swers dispose of waste
public oilets
strret lights
public parks for excerise
20
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what did the government introduce in the modern peirod to reudce illness

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they had compulsury vaccines
scrrening for gentic diseases]

charities communicating health rrisks

21
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govenemtn lifetsyle campgains

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stop october and sugar smart

22
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what did the clean air act law entail

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it was aimed to reuce pollution

23
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when were x rays dicovered

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1895 by wilhelm rontgen

24
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how did aseptc surgery impri=ove in the 1884

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doctors and nurses started wearing gloves ans stertilising there gown

25
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stage one of the evaction route in the ww1

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stretcher bears would carry you and move your to the regimental aid post

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stage two of the evcuatio route 2

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in the regimental aid posts and soliders would be clened banadged then if it was more sious they would go to the dressing stations station

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stage 3 of the evcuation route of ww1

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dressing statiosn were mobile units that they would clean any infected wounds if it was more serious then they would go to the causlty clearing station

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stage 4 of the evcuation woute of ww 1

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they were hunts and tents that had operating theatres , x-rays , surgeons , nurses and loads of causlty=ies could be treated they

29
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stage 5 of the evcuation route of ww1

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base hospitals

30
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why wre x-rays so important

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as they could loacte bullets and shrapenl and this led to invasive surgery getting them out