Medicine 1900
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- Causes of disease and illness
- Medicine 1900-Present
- Prevention and treatment
- Treatments: Magic Bullets, Antibiotics, Advanced Surgery, Transplants, Herbal Remedies NHS(adverts)
- Preventions: Vaccinations,Healthy Diet, Exercise, Quit Bad Habits, Sleep(6-8 hours), Health Screenings NHS(adverts)
- Development of Penicillin
- Discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1928
- He discovered a petri dish in his lab containing a mould which was killing bacteria around it
- He published his findings between 1929-1931
- However no one funded his research so he had to stop working
- Florey and Chain (1938-1940)
- Penicillin needed to be purified to treat patients
- Chain developed a freezing technique as part of the purification process
- However Florey's team couldn't produce enough Penicillin, so once it ran out their patients died
- Chain developed a freezing technique as part of the purification process
- Penicillin needed to be purified to treat patients
- Discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1928
- NHS
- Founded in 1948 to provide free healthcare to the public as a reward for the soldiers of WW2
- Parliament runs it and employs the staff
- Private doctors could also work for the NHS, but for less money
- Magic Bullets
- Salvarson 606
- Developed in 1909 by Paul Ehrlich
- He tested it on a patient with syphilis and it successfully homed in on the target and cured the patient
- However the patient died once they were cured
- Prontosil
- Developed in 1932 by Gerhard Damagh
- He tested it on his daughter with blood poisoning and she was cured and survived
- Salvarson 606
- Discovery of DNA
- James Watson 1953: discovered that DNA is passed onto children from their parents
- Francis Crick 1953: discovered the structure of DNA
- Prevention and treatment
- Germ Theory
- Lifestyle
- Medicine 1900-Present
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