Medicine And Treatment Factors That Helped

FACTORS THAT HELPED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINE:

Communication:

• invention of the printing press seeded up the spread of new 'renaissance ideas'
• Medical journals such as 'the lancet' allowed scientists to share and develop ideas

Science and Technology:

• Industrial revolution allowed scientists to use microscopes
• Chemicals developed
• Wilhelm Roentgen discovered xrays in 1895
• Surgical technology and scientific progress allowed for the first heart transplant operation by Christian Barnard in 1967

War:

• War wounds gave Pare the opportunities to develop a soothing lotion which replaced cauterisation, artificial limbs and surgical tools
• Crimean war Florence Nightingale the opportunity to conduct her work
• Franco-Prussian war 1871 helped there rivalry between Pasteur and Koch. Both men's work were fuelled by nationalist pride.
• WW1 (1914-18) Landsteiner's work on blood groups and transfusions
• WW2 helped to develop penicillin (mass produced in 1942 as a response to the demand created by casualties of war) also helped yo develop plastic surgery

Government: 

• French and German governments helped Pasteur and Koch 
• Liberal Government in Britain (1906-16) 
• British and…