20th Century - Medicine Through Time
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- Created on: 02-06-13 19:35
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- 20th Century
- Public Health
- NHS set up in 1948
- After WW2 conditions of city was revealed
- 1911 National Insurance Act
- 1942 Beveridge report suggests a national health service
- Cradle to grave
- Causes of disease
- Germs
- Training of Doctors
- Doctors - 7 years incl. degree and practical experience
- Nurses - 3 years with degree, practical experience and register at Nuring and Midwifery Council
- Paramedics - 2/5 years
- Treatment of Disease
- Magic Bullet 1: Salvarsan 606 by Ehrlich 1909
- Magic Bullet 2: Prontosil by Domagk 1932
- Penicillin
- Anitibiotics
- Herbal Remedies
- Individuals
- Alexander Flemming: Discovered penicillin
- Howard Florey and Ernst Chain develop it and get it mass produced
- Alexander Flemming: Discovered penicillin
- James Watson and Francis Crick: Discover DNA 1953
- Other
- Technology: X-rays, Blood transfusions, Radiotherapy, Endoscopes, dialysis machine, pacemakers, CAT and MRI scans, home technology,microscopes
- Public Health
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