Treating Disease

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  • Treating Disease and Rational Explanations
    • Praying and Repenting
      • Pray to saints
        • Could stop the illness
          • Pilgrimages
        • The Roman Catholic Church
          • Domination for peoples' studies
          • Encouraged people to believe that disease was a punishment from God
            • Prevent people from finding cures
              • Domination for peoples' studies
          • Scholars of medicine
            • Would follow the works of Galen
              • Galen
                • Fit well with the Christian beliefs
                • God created the human body
                  • Fit well with the Christian beliefs
                • Majority of his ideas were incorrect
            • Could not dissect
              • Prevented learning more about the human anatomy
                • Would follow the works of Galen
                  • Galen
                    • God created the human body
                      • Majority of his ideas were incorrect
        • Pilgrimages
        • Whippers in public
          • Flagellants
            • Apologise for they have sinned
      • People believed that God had been the reason to have caused disease
        • Praying and Repenting
          • Pray to saints
            • Could stop the illness
              • The Roman Catholic Church
                • Encouraged people to believe that disease was a punishment from God
                  • Prevent people from finding cures
                  • Scholars of medicine
                    • Could not dissect
                      • Prevented learning more about the human anatomy
                • Whippers in public
                  • Flagellants
                    • Apologise for they have sinned
            • Astrology - 1100 and 1300
              • Movement of planet and stars
                • Have effect of Earth and people
                • Cause disease
              • Arabic
            • Bloodet and Purge
              • Bloodlet - When there was too much blood in the body. Leeches would be used
              • Literally let them **** so hard to get rid of fluids - use laxitives to...
            • Four Humours
              • Hippocrates
                • Wrote beliefs about medicine
                  • Later translated to Latin.
                • Considered the "absolute truth"
                • Hippocratic Oath
                  • Promise made by doctors to obey rules of behaviour in their professional life.
              • Made of four fluids
                • Blood
                • Phlegm
                • Yellow bile
                • Black bile
              • Linked to four seasons
              • Developed by Galen
                • Theory of Opposites
                  • Way disease can be treated
                    • Balance the fluids in the body
            • Bad Air caused disease - Miasma Theory
              • Human refuse
              • Slaughter-houses
              • Dead bodies
            • Purify the air
              • Posies
              • Oranges
                • Physicians
                  • Posies
                  • Little practical experience
                  • Male doctors
                  • University for seven years
                  • Islamic texts
                  • Vademecums used for clinical observations
                  • In the 1300, there were less than 100
                  • Expensive - only the rich could afford it.
          • Black Death hits Britain - 1348
            • First British Printing Press - 1470
              • Vesailius "Fabric of Human Body" - 1543
                • Harvey's "On the Motions of the Heart and Blood" - 1628
                  • Royal Society - 1660
                    • Great Plague hits Britain - 1665
                      • Sydenham's "Medical Obser-vations" - 1676
                        • Jenner publishes vaccination findings - 1798
                          • James Simpson discovers chloroform - 1847
                            • Smallpox vaccines made compulsory - 1853
                              • John Snow  "On the Mode of Commu-nication of Cholera" - 1855
                                • Nightingale's "Notes on Nursing"
                                  • Louis Pasteur "Germ Theory" - 1861
                                    • Public Health Act - 1875
                                      • Koch identifies anthrax spores - 1876
                                        • Wilhelm Rontgen discovers X - Rays - 1895
                                          • Ehrlich and Hata discover magic bullet Salvarsan 606 - 1909
                                            • Fleming discovers  penicillin - 1928
                                              • Domagk discovers magic bullet Prontosil - 1932
                                                • Florey and Chain purify penicillin - 1938 - 40
                                                  • Government launch diphtheria vaccination campaign - 1940
                                                    • NHS founded - 1948
                                                      • Watson and Crick - 1953
                                                        • Government launch polio vaccination campaign - 1956
                                                          • Cigarette ads banned from TV - 1965

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