Themes & Factors
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- Factors
- Science & technology
- Invention of the water pump (circulation of blood).
- Bronze tools for mummification(and surgery) in Egypt.
- Engineering skills of Romans for public health.
- Prehistoric Flint tools for trephining.
- Invention of the printing press in the Middle Ages.
- Invention of the microscope in the 19th century.
- New artists in the Renaissance.
- War
- Bad
- War involved in the Medieval period prevented progress.
- War surgeons thought it was unmanly to use chloroform.
- Stopped research for medicine because the money was spent on war and patching up soldiers instead.
- WW1- Doctors gained experience, improved skills in brain surgery, head surgery and plastic surgery. X-rays became popular (quicker and less traumatic for patients). Blood transfusions and better antiseptics.
- Good
- Franco Prussian War (1860-71) brought out rivalry between Koch and Pasteur.
- Boer War (1899-1902) highlighted the health problems of the British working class, which led to health inspections and free school meals in schools.
- Crimean War (1854-56) helped nursing.
- WW1- Doctors gained experience, improved skills in brain surgery, head surgery and plastic surgery. X-rays became popular (quicker and less traumatic for patients). Blood transfusions and better antiseptics.
- Paré was a war surgeon.
- Romans wanted their soldiers to be fit and healthy.
- WW2- US invested money into penicillin in order to produce it for their injured soldiers.
- Bad
- Chance
- Fleming and penicillin.
- Simpson sniffing chloroform.
- Jenner appearing at the village.
- Paré and boiling oil.
- Trial and error of medicine man. Lots of natural remedies worked for prehistoric people.
- Religion
- Bad
- Church thought it was sinful to use chloroform in childbirth.
- Evil spirits caused disease.
- Galen and Vesalius couldn't dissect humans,
- Witchdoctors
- Plague sent by God.
- Church opposed the use of Salverson 606 because it treated syphilis- they didn't want people to have more sex!
- Good
- Many hospitals run by the church (Christianity and Islam) in the Medieval period.
- Mummification improved the knowledge of human anatomy.
- Priests were doctors in early civilisations.
- Bad
- Government
- British & US government fund penicillin research.
- British government introduced compulsory vaccination in 1887 (smallpox).
- Government aided both Pasteur and Koch by setting up institutes to help them.
- Rome and public health.
- Pharoahs- led to the creation of the first doctors.
- Public Health Acts (1848 Permissive), (1875 compulsory).
- Local laws in the Middle Ages to keep the streets clean.
- Rome and the empire.
- Introduction of the NHS in 1948.
- Science & technology
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