Enlightenment Medicine - Part 2:
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- Medicine In Enlightenment England:
- Context:
- New understandings of the human body and Galen's works were sometimes incomplete.
- Four humour theory no longer accepted.
- People though that miasma caused disease.
- Doctors carried out dissections and used microscopes.
- Four humour theory no longer accepted.
- New understandings of the human body and Galen's works were sometimes incomplete.
- The Cause of Disease:
- Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory - 1857:
- People believed in spontaneous generation - that microbes appear because of disease.
- Still believed in miasma.
- He proved there were germs in the air by sterilising water and placing it in a vacuumed space and it stayed sterile.
- People believed in spontaneous generation - that microbes appear because of disease.
- Robert Koch:
- Began linking disease to the microbe that caused the disease.
- Developed a solid medium to grow cultures and dyeing techniques to colour microbes.
- He identified anthrax spores and the bacteria that caused septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera.
- Louis Pasteur Cholera Vaccine and Anthrax vaccine:
- Chamberland left the cholera germs on his table and injected the chickens after his holiday.
- The chickens survived and after giving them cholera again they survived.
- Pasteur's team made a weakened form of the anthrax spores and that made sheep immune to the disease.
- They demonstrated in public.
- Chamberland left the cholera germs on his table and injected the chickens after his holiday.
- Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory - 1857:
- Smallpox and Edward Jenner:
- Inoculation:
- Lady Montagu brought inoculation to England because smallpox was killing a lot.
- She found that a healthy person could be immunised using pus from smallpox sores.
- Inoculation sometimes led to smallpox and then death.
- Lady Montagu brought inoculation to England because smallpox was killing a lot.
- Edward Jenner:
- He found that milk maids would not get smallpox but instead a milder cowpox.
- He found that people with cowpox did not get smallpox.
- In 1976, he injected a small boy with pus from a milkmaids sores and then injected him with smallpox and he didn't get smallpox.
- He found that milk maids would not get smallpox but instead a milder cowpox.
- Opposition:
- Jenner could not explain how it worked scientifically.
- Inoculators were afraid of losing money.
- Many were worried of the side effects.
- The Church felt that it was no natural.
- Inoculation:
- Developments In Nursing:
- Florence Nightingale:
- Brought discipline and professionalism to nursing.
- Improved hygiene so it resulted in less deaths.
- She came from a wealthy background.
- Went to the Crimean War to sort out nursing care in the English Camp.
- Wrote 'Notes on Nursing' and set up a hospital in London.
- Brought discipline and professionalism to nursing.
- Mary Seacole:
- Came from Jamaica and volunteered in the Crimean War.
- She nurtured soldiers and built the 'British Hotel'.
- Florence Nightingale:
- Context:
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