Improvements in 1860 - 78
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- Improvements in Medicine 1860 - 75
- Pasteur
- Discovering Germ Theory
- Microorganisms caused disease and was spread through air
- His impact
- It led to an understanding in surgery, on why infection developed after an operation.
- Lister's development of antiseptics.
- Public Health - Helped explain the link between hygiene and health
- Led to identify various microbes causing disease, so the next 30 years, vaccines could be produced.
- Discovering Germ Theory
- Lister
- Introduction of Carbolic Acid in surgery
- He was told that the solution was used at the Carlisle sewage works and used to kill the microorganisms causing the decay
- Began to use the solution to clean wounds, equipment, and bandages
- Death rate from infection dropped
- Carbolic Spay, used during operation, make sure no microorganisms are on the surgeons hands or equipment
- Discovered antiseptics
- Introduction of Carbolic Acid in surgery
- Balzagette
- Chief engineer to improve London Sewage system
- Sewers should be large and waste should go to the sea.
- Project finished by 1875 and was very expensive.
- Sewers should be large and waste should go to the sea.
- Chief engineer to improve London Sewage system
- The Sanitary Act 1866
- All towns must employ inspectors to check water supplies and drainage.
- Local governments take action to improve public health
- Local Council Manchester made regulations about the size of rooms and windows in new houses, for light and ventilation
- Mayor of Birmingham improved water supplies and demolish slums
- The 1875 Public Health Act
- Significant as reflects the attitude of laissez faire changing
- Increased role of government in public health and a changed attitude towards government responsibility
- Local authorities were now required to make improvement in hygiene
- Increased role of government in public health and a changed attitude towards government responsibility
- Significant as reflects the attitude of laissez faire changing
- Florence Nightingale and her works
- 1860, the Nightingale School for the training of nurses
- Set up a training school for midwives in 1861
- Elizabeth Garrett
- 1866 - She opened St Mary's Dispensary to provide medical treatment for women
- 1872 - after Garrett's return, the Dispensary added a 10-bed ward; staffed all by women
- It moves site and expanded several times becoming officially the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1918, just after her death
- 1872 - after Garrett's return, the Dispensary added a 10-bed ward; staffed all by women
- 1873 - She became the a member of the British Medical Association
- First woman to become the first female mayor in England. 1908
- 1866 - She opened St Mary's Dispensary to provide medical treatment for women
- Other Female doctors
- Sophia Jex - Blake led four other women who persuaded Edinburgh university to let them study
- However, they had to pay more as were taught separately from males.
- They faced opposition and harassment and were not allowed to do practical work.
- Edith Pechey won a prize in Chemistry and so was given to the male student who came second.
- Then in 1874 the university forced the female students to leave.
- They faced opposition and harassment and were not allowed to do practical work.
- However, they had to pay more as were taught separately from males.
- Eventually Jex- Blake and Pechey gained their medical degrees abroad.
- Attitudes were slow although some people were in favour of women being doctors.
- Sophia Jex - Blake led four other women who persuaded Edinburgh university to let them study
- Pasteur
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