Britain: Health and the People

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What are the 8 factors of change?
War, Chance, Religion, Science and Technology, Money, Governments, Communications, Individuals/Pioneers.
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In what order are the time periods of the medicine section?
Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Medieval, The Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, Modern Day.
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What were Hippocrates' ideas about causes of disease?
The 4 Humours: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
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What was Galen's first name? Whose theory did he agree with?
Claudius. Hippocrates.
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Out of the Saxons, Vikings and Normans who had the best-worst health?
Normans-Vikings-Saxons.
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What does 'Physician' mean?
Doctors - physic means art of healing.
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In medieval times what % of hospitals actually treated the sick?
10%.
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What were the names of the 2 types of the Black Plague?
Bubonic, Pneumonic.
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What was the name of the group of people who whipped themselves to try to get rid of the plague?
The Flagellants.
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In what year was the first outbreak of the Black Death?
1348.
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Overall did the Christian Church help or hinder more?
Hindered.
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What was Harvey's first name? What did he prove?
William. That the heart acts as a pump.
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What was Paré's first name? What did he discover?
Ambroise. Wounds healed more quickly if you tie the ends of the arteries with silk threads rather than using boiling oil.
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What was Vesalius' first name? What did he discover?
Andreas. The jaw bone was 1 bone, not 2 - disproving Galen's previous theory.
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What did Paracelsus believe in?
He disagreed with Galen and thought/claimed that illnesses were caused by seeds of disease - they settle in the infected parts of the body.
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What did John Hunter prove?
You could treat a really bad wound rather than just amputating a limb.
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Where did inoculation come from?
China.
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Who was the first person to use inoculation in Britain?
Lady Mary Wortley Montague.
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In which century was smallpox the most horrible and deadly disease?
18th.
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Who invented vaccinations?
Edward Jenner.
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What was the first vaccination for?
Smallpox - Cowpox was used.
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Who gave Jenner the idea to use cowpox to prevent smallpox?
Milkmaids.
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What century did Florence Nightingale improve hospitals? What did she do to improve army hospitals?
19th. Cleaned up the hospitals - made the beds clean and comfortable and made sure the hospitals were heigenic.
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When were the 2 public health acts passed?
1848. 1875
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When was Cholera around? Where did it come from?
1830. India.
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Which public health act was forced and which was encouraged?
Forced - 1875. Encouraged - 1848.
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In what year was the Great Stink?
1858.
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Who had been working on plans for an ambitious new sanitation system?
Joseph Bazalgette.
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What were the 3 main problems of surgery?
Pain. Bleeding. Infection.
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When and who discovered: Ether? Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas)? Chloroform?
William Morton, 1846. Humphry David, 1799. James (Young) Simpson, 1847.
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What was Ignaz Semmelweis' theory? When did he come up with it?
Washing your hands could save a patient's life. 1847.
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What was Pasteur's first name? What did he prove?
Louis. Decay and infection was caused by microbes in the air.
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What was Lister's first name? What did he find out/do?
Joseph. Found out that carbolic acid kills parasites, he used this acid to kill the microbes in infection.
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What was Landsteiner's first name? What did he discover and when?
Karl. Blood types, 1901.
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What was the technical term for 'bad air'?
Miasma.
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Which one came first - Spontaneous Generation theory or Germ theory?
Spontaneous Generation theory.
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What was Koch's first name? What did he discover?
Robert. Different bacteria cause different diseases.
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What was Ehrlich's first name? What did he discover and when?
Paul. A magic bullet - Salvasan 606 for treating syphilis 1905.
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What was Fleming's first name? What did he discover?
Alexandra. The Penicillin in mold.
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What was Florey's first name? What was Chain's first name? What did they do?
Howard. Ernst. Froze dried the mold/Extraced the active ingredient/Experimented on mice/Did human trials with Penicillin.
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On D-Day they had enough Penicillin to treat how many patents?
40,000.
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What year was the National Health Service (NHS) started?
1948
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Who founded the NHS?
Aneurin Bevan.
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