18th & 19th CENTURY MEDICINE

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18th & 19th CENTURY MEDICINE
Smallpox
- 18th & 19th CENTURY MEDICINE
Germs
- 1) The microscope - saw tiny creatures - no connection to disease
Pasteur
- Germs
  - 1) The microscope - saw tiny creatures - no connection to disease
Koch
Public Health
- Cholera
  - Snow
Cholera
- Snow
The Great Stink
- Public Health
Hospitals
Women
- Florence Nightingale
- Women allowed to practice medicine by 1870's
Florence Nightingale
Jenner
- Smallpox
Vaccination - using cowpox
- Jenner
2) Miasma
3) Spontaneous Generation -thought disease caused germs
Germ Theory & Pasteurisation
- Pasteur
- Koch
Proved germs cause disease in humans
Workers were needed for factories so many houses were built back-to-back
Awful conditions - no toilets, rarely clean water, sewage entered the river
- Workers were needed for factories so many houses were built back-to-back
Chadwick
- People believed - miasma
People believed - miasma
Report - streets need cleaner water
- Chadwick
Proved cholera was caught through contagion
Report was ignored by government
The waste in the river caused London to smell
- The Great Stink
Sewers set up - designed by Bazalgette
Public Health Act 1848
Sanitary Act 1866
Public Health Act 1875
Children
Death rate increases
- Children
Not looked after well
Ether & chloroform
- Hospitals
Still filthy and high risk of infection
Antiseptics were later found & hospitals started being clean
- Germ Theory & Pasteurisation
Women allowed to practice medicine by 1870's
Improved conditions of hospitals
Reudced death rate in Crimea

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