The Industrial Revolution - Medicine Through Time
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- Created on: 02-06-13 18:57
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- Industrial Revolution 1800AD - 1900AD
- Public Health
- Workhouses - for old and weak
- Unhygienic
- Rapid growth
- Crowded
- Limited access to water - dirty
- Public Health Act 1848 - NOT COMPULSORY (so 1/3 towns)
- Poor diet, bad working hours and conditions
- 1875 - local council responsible for clean water, rubbish and sewers
- Causes of Disease
- Germs
- Treatment of Disease
- Herbal treatments - unregulated
- Vaccinations
- Local doctor if needed or GP
- Nourishing food, warmth and comfort
- Training of Doctors
- MUST be trained, university for a few years with practical experience
- Individuals
- Edward Jenner: Developed small pox vaccine, opposition but compulsory in 1852
- Louis Pasteur: Published germ theory in 1861, proved it by conducting experiments AND Anthrax vaccine
- Robert Koch: Growing bacteria in agar jelly, stained with dye, tuberculosis and cholera microbes
- Edwin Chadwick: published The Sanitary conditions of the laboring population', temporary board of health, non-compulsory public health act 1848
- John Snow: discovered link between water and cholera
- Other
- Florence Nightingale: Scutari 42 - 2%, clean wards and hygienic conditions, nursing school, 200 books
- Elizabeth Garret Anderson: First british female doctor, trained as a nurse, went to lectures, took college of apothecaries, set up own practice and medicine for women
- Public Health
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