Medicine Through Time

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  • Medicine Through Time
    • Renaissance c1500-c1700
      • Fewer people believed in supernatural or religious causes
      • People still believed in miasma and Four Humours
      • Thomas Sydenham (English Hippocrates)
        • 1660s and 70s
        • Observed patients symptoms
        • Treated the disease as a whole
      • Printing press 1440
      • Royal Society
        • Aimed for scientific understanding
        • From 1665 the Philosophical Transactions journal was published
          • Scientists could share their work and ideas
      • Bleeding and purging were still used as treatment
        • Theory and transference and new herbal remedies were introduced
      • Cleanliness and healthy living still a prevention
        • New prevention: removing sewage and rubbish more, change clothes regularly
      • Vesalius
        • Promoted dissection
        • Proved Galen was wrong
        • On the Fabric of the Human Body - published in 1543
      • Great Plague 1665
      • William Harvey
        • Discovered and proved blood flowed around the body through arteries and veins
        • An Anatomical Account of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals - published in 1628
    • Modern c1900-present
      • James Watson and Francis Crick
        • Genetic codes of DNA worked together
        • 1953 - double helix structure of DNA was discovered
        • 1990 - Watson led the Human Genome Project and identified and mapped every gene in human DNA
      • New understanding that certain lifestyle factors can negatively affect our health
      • Improvements in diagnosis with help of testing skin and blood, x-rays and monitors
      • Lots of medical technological advances
        • Pacemakers, x-rays, microscopes, insulin pumps and more
      • Magic Bullets
        • Chemical compounds that would attack and kill the microbe causing a disease
      • 1948 - NHS were set up
        • Free healthcare, compulsory vaccinations, more easy access, lifestyle campaigns
      • Discovery of penicillin
        • 1928 - Alexander Fleming recognises this mould killing bacteria
        • 1939 - Florey and Chain continue Fleming's research
        • Mass production in 1942 and 1943
    • Industrial c1700-c1900
      • Louis Pasteur
        • Germ Theory 1861
      • Robert Koch
        • Discovered that microbes caused disease
      • Florence Nightingale
      • James Simpson
      • Joseph Lister
      • Edward Jenner
      • 1875 Public Health Act
        • Governments 'laissez-faire' attitude changed
        • Authorities must provide clean water, sewers, public toilets, public parks and street lighting and inspect lodgings and check quality of food sold
      • John Snow
    • Middle Ages c1250-1500
      • Church controlled ideas as monks could read and write
      • God caused disease as a test of peoples faith or miasma (bad air)
      • Hippocrates
        • Four Humours (Phlegm, Blood, Yellow Bile and Black Bile)
        • Hippocratic oath
      • Galen
        • Theory of Opposites
      • Prevention: Carrying lucky charms, chanting incantations, purify the air, exercising, not overeating
      • Treatments: Bloodletting (cutting a vein, cupping or use of leeches) and purging, going on a pilgrimage or praying
      • Black Death 1348
        • Headache, fever, vomiting, buboes
        • Cutting open buboes, holding lucky charms, eating cool things
        • Causes: Four Humours, miasma, religion
        • Prevention: Clearing rubbish, carrying herbs and spices, lighting a fire in the room
      • Barber surgeons, apothecaries, physicians or care at home

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