1700 - 1900 Medicine Revision
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- 1700 - 1900 Revision
- Prevention
- Edward Jenner and Vaccination
- Jenner had a milkmaid, who had cow pox, visit him in 1790
- Jenner Believed that people who had gotten cow pox couldn't get smallpox
- Tested theory on orphan boy - given cowpox then smallpox, didn't catch smallpox
- Published his results - No proof! Rejected by Royal Society
- In 1802 + 1805 gov gave him £300000 to develop
- Edward Jenner and Vaccination
- Public Health
- Edwin Chadwick
- Gov were Laissez faire
- Streets were crowded and open sewers
- Wrote a report on public health in 1842
- Caused the 1st Public Health act to be made (Nothing was compulsory)
- John Snow
- 1854 - John investigates the broad street pump and the related Cholera Cases
- Believes it spreads by water
- Plotted the deaths of victims
- Proves it spreads through water but can't prove how
- Second Public health act
- Made everything in 1st act on compulsory
- Working class (men) get vote
- The Great Sink
- Edwin Chadwick
- Causes
- Louis Pasteur
- 1850s - Pasteur investigated with liquids going off.
- Published germ theory, proved spontaneous generation wrong
- Pasteur and his team investigated Chicken Cholera and made a vaccine for it
- Robert Koch
- 1875 Koch, investigated the link between bacteria and disease
- Identified the Microbes causing TB and Cholera.
- Before Koch and Pasteur, it was believed that miasma or Spontaneous generation
- Louis Pasteur
- Treatments
- Simpson
- Came across Chloroform by sniffing chemicals with his friends
- Chloroform was used as an anaesthetic
- Many people use it but hundreds die - Doses too high
- Lister
- He was a Surgeon that read about germ thoery
- Friend visited him in hospital and complained that it smelt of sewage - started putting tools in carbolic acid
- His personal death rate fell by 2/3
- Opposition
- Strong Smelling
- Made Operations longer
- Many didn't believe in GT
- Simpson
- Prevention
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