19th century medicine
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- Created on: 09-02-19 13:19
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- 19th Century Medicine
- James Simpson
- Discovered chloroform
- Humphry Davey
- People were opposed to anesthetics because they thought a word without pain was un-natural
- He was a young chemist who did experiments with gases and chemicals to find an anesthetic
- He tested the chemicals on himself
- He discovered Nitrus Oxide, laughing gas
- Published an article about it
- John Snow
- Made a chloroform inhaler to make it safer which Queen Victoria used for the birth of her 8th child
- He discovered the cause of cholera in 48 hours
- Joseph Lister
- Carbolic acid
- An antiseptic
- Sprayed carbolic acid on surgeons hands, the wounds and the instrument used in surgery
- Publicized Pasteur's Germ theory
- His methods were found to be difficult and unpleasant to use
- Carbolic acid
- Koch
- Was given funding to research germs
- He discovered the germs that caused chicken cholera and sheed anthrax as well as human diseases as tuberculosis
- Florence Nightgale
- Was a British nurse who worked in the Crimean war
- Wrote a book called 'Notes on Nursing'
- Convinced doctors they needed to clean the wards and change the dressings and beddings regularly
- She opened a school of nursing
- Chadwick
- Employed by the government to look into living condition after widespread deaths due to cholera
- He suggested the local council should do somethingabout the health and living condition of the poor and build better sewers
- Laissezfaire
- The idea that it was not people's responsibility to are for others also one of the reasons the government didn't do anything about the living conditionsthe poor
- Louis Pasteur
- Proved that germs cased illness
- Germ Theory
- People did not believe him
- Joseph Bazalgette
- Built first sewer in London
- Was given £3 million by the government to build sewer
- Anaesthetic
- Pain kiler
- Antiseptic
- Germ killer
- Elizabeth Garrett
- First Female doctor in England
- Crawford Long
- Discovered Ether
- SpontaneousGeneration
- The theory that microbes just appeared after someone got sick
- Francesco Redi
- An Italian scientist proved this was wrong
- Semmelweiss
- Was a Hungarian Maternity doctor
- He made doctors wash their hands because he knew unclean hand killed patients but he didn't know why (germs)
- 50% of women died during child birth
- He came before genre theory
- Cholera
- It was caused by dirty water
- It spread rapidly in industrial and over populated towns like London and Manchester
- People thought it was caused by miasma
- 1832
- Miasma
- Bad Smells
- The Great stink
- In 1858 it was so hot the Rver Thames dried up so the sewage at the bottom really stank
- It was right outside parliament so it really affected the government
- This is why they gave money for the sewers to be made
- Cattle Plague of 1866
- This disease spread rapidly across Britain the only way to stop it was by isolating & slaughtering cows that had caught the disease
- It caused food shortages so the government employed a scientist to find the cause and prevent it (Professer Beale)
- Professor Beale'sresearch suggested Pasteur's right & a microbe/germcausedthe cattle plague
- Typhoid Fever
- This disease killed Queen Victoria's husband, Price Albert
- James Simpson
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