Advances in medicine mind map.
- 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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- 'Magic Bullets' were used to describe a medical cure which would attack microbes that caused disease.
- 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.
- Penicillin was the first successful antibiotic
- Most antibiotics were discovered in collections of bacteria.
- Current antibiotics may soon become useless against diseases that have adapted such as septicaemia.
- An antibiotic is any treatment that can slow or destroy bacteria.
- 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.
- Drugs become safer and more efficient to take.
- Machines allow mass production of medication.
- Improved scientific knowledge leads to advances in testing and trialling drugs.
- 'Magic Bullets'
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