Renaissance Vs Industrial Medicine


	Renaissance Vs Industrial Medicine
	Similarities People continued to believe in the miasma theory, and even Florence Nightingale was a firm believer of the idea of bad air being the cause of disease Even in Industrial Britain people were influenced by the Church and some supernatural beliefs (people remained religious and used it to explain outbreaks of disease)	Differences For a period of time it was thought that germs (microbes that could be observed in microscopes) were a product of decay, spread by miasmata - this was known as spontaneous generation Louis Pasteur then published findings which rejected spontaneous generation and the miasma theory - the Germ Theory (1861) and then the Germ Theory of Infection (1878) In Industrial times, there were many important new people such as Pasteur, Koch and Florence Nightingale The government began to take more action (less of a laissez-faire attitude) and in 1875 the second Public Health Act was passed New technology - right at the end of the 1800s, Roentgen rays were developed (earliest x-rays) Jenner - gathered some evidence that inoculation was not that effective, and then proceeded to formulate a vaccine for smallpox using the cowpox bacteria. Major breakthrough - smallpox was a huge killer in Renaissance times, and by 1979 it was eradicated
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People continued to believe in the miasma theory, and even Florence Nightingale was a firm believer of the idea of bad air being the cause of disease
Even in Industrial Britain people were influenced by the Church and some supernatural beliefs (people remained religious and used it to explain outbreaks of disease)

For a period of time it was thought that germs (microbes that could be observed in microscopes) were a product of decay, spread by miasmata - this was known as spontaneous generation
Louis Pasteur then published findings which rejected spontaneous generation and the miasma theory - the Germ Theory (1861) and then the Germ Theory of Infection (1878)
In Industrial times, there were many important new people such as Pasteur, Koch and Florence Nightingale
The government began to take more action (less of a laissez-faire attitude) and in 1875 the second Public Health Act was passed
New technology - right at the end of the 1800s, Roentgen rays were developed (earliest x-rays)
Jenner - gathered some evidence that inoculation was not that effective, and then proceeded to formulate a vaccine for smallpox using the cowpox bacteria. Major breakthrough - smallpox was a huge killer in Renaissance times, and by 1979 it was eradicated

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