Advances in medicine mind map.

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  • Created by: Will Lang
  • Created on: 18-11-16 16:17
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  • Advances in medicine 19th century to modern day.
    • 'Magic Bullets'
      • 'Magic Bullets' were used to describe a medical cure which would attack microbes that caused disease.
        • They left the body whilst keeping it healthy and alive.
      • Doctors understood the fact that the human body produced antibodies
        • Antibodies would fight diseases and infection as part of the immune system.
        • Scientists were searching for artificial or chemical antibodies that could attack infection but not damage the body
      • A cure was found for syphilis.
        • Syphilis treatment was not good previously and caused death.
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    • Development of antibiotics
      • An antibiotic is any treatment that can slow or destroy bacteria.
        • Penicillin was the first successful antibiotic
          • Created using micro-organisms
          • Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 in a sample of mould.
      • Most antibiotics were discovered in collections of bacteria.
        • Current antibiotics may soon become useless against diseases that have adapted such as septicaemia.
    • Impact of science and technology.
      • Improved scientific knowledge leads to advances in testing and trialling drugs.
        • Not as many mistakes are made.
        • Drugs take longer to test.
          • Drugs become safer and more efficient to take.
            • Drugs now enter the specific part of the body needed through the mouth in capsules.
      • Machines allow mass production of medication.

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