History: Medicine and Surgery (1750-1900 Industrial)

Industrial Medicine (1750-1900)

Beliefs-

• Miasma bad smells that cause disease
• Spontaneous generation that decaying matter turn into living organisms
• Germ Theory that organisms are in air and cause disease

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• Jenner saw that people with cow-pox rarely got small-pox. Introduced vaccination. Given governement grant but couldn't explain how it worked
• Garrett was the first woman doctor in 1859. She was barred from university and College of Surgeons. She won court of appeal to go
• Seacole fought racial and female discrimination to nurse…