Attempts to treat and cure illness and disease
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- Attempts to treat and cure illness and disease.
- Traditional treatments common in the medieval era.
- Herbal medicines
- used to treat everyday illness
- herb plantain - Leech Book.
- pestle and mortar.
- Barber Surgeons
- Medieval doctors who performed minor surgery.
- Also cut hair.
- carried out trade in a shop open to the street.
- had to work quickly to prevent blood loss.
- Blood letting
- Four Humors - imbalances in body caused illness.
- purging fixed this.
- Venesection.
- Leeches were also used.
- Common treatments in medevial Wales
- Dynion Hysbys (wise men)
- had the power to break spells.
- could heal and safeguard animals.
- The Mediciner in the laws of Hywel Dda
- lived in homes of princes/lords.
- used herbal remedies.
- repaired broken bones.
- The Physicians of Myddfai
- family who treated princes/lords.
- 'Red book of Hergest'- gave instructions on how to treat patients.
- used the stars to treat patients.
- used herbal remedies.
- Curative Wells
- St Winefride's Well - holly well
- famous for heeling and curing properties
- water used to treat skin disorders.
- St Winefride's Well - holly well
- Dynion Hysbys (wise men)
- Herbal medicines
- James Lister and the use of antiseptics
- discoverd antiseptics
- James Simpson and the development of anesthetics.
- Professor at Edinbourough Uni
- discovered Chloroform can relieve pain in childbirth.
- Surgeons unaware how much dosage to give to patients.
- Joseph Lister and antiseptics.
- believed in the Germ theory.
- Used Carbolic acid to sterilise hands and instruments before operating.
- reduced the rate of infection by doing this.
- Carbolic acid sprayed on patients wounds.
- 1890 : Listers methods widely adopted.
- Operating theatres were cleaned.
- surgical instruments were sterilised.
- sterilised gloves were worn.
- Twentieth Century developments.
- Marie Curie
- discovered Radium & Polonium
- developed mobile x-rays
- used in WW1.
- opened up way of treating cancer.
- Flemming,Florey and Chain in antibiotics.
- Flemming - discoverd penicillin.
- Florey& Chain - mass produced penicillin
- 1941 - human trials for penicillin.
- Bernard and transplant surgery.
- Preformed first ever heart transplant surgery - December 1967
- man died 18 days later.
- immunosuppressive drugs worked to stop death.
- Marie Curie
- Modern advances in cancer treatment and surgery
- Cancer treatment;
- radio-therapy
- chemo-therapy
- surgery
- heart disease most common in UK
- Cancer treatment;
- Alternative treatments.
- Hydro-therapy
- Aroma-therapy
- Hypno-therapy
- Acupuncture.
- Traditional treatments common in the medieval era.
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