A Jamaican nurse who volunteered as a nurse in the Crimean War. She was rejected on racist grounds by Nightingale but continued to treat wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
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How was Penicillin discovered?
Alexander Fleming went to clean old culture dishes containing staphylococcal and, by chance, had discovered that a fungal spore had landed on the dish. The colonies of staphylococcal around the mould had stopped growing.
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What was the Chadwick Report?
A report describing levels of sickness and mortality due to the chloera epidemic as well as poor living conditions in the Industrial Revolution. The idea that improved public health would save money.
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Describe John Snow's role in medicine.
Linked contaminated water and chloera by studying the chloera outbreak on Broad Street. Victims were all using the same pump. Snow remove the handle and ended the outbreak. However the germ theory wasn't published so people opposed the idea.
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What's the difference between the 1st Public Health Act and the 2nd Public Health Act.
The 2nd Public Health Act forced local councils to improve public health whereas the 1st Public Health Act encouraged it..
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What Acts were passed by the government from 1906-1911?
1. Free School Meals 2. School medical inspection 3. Old Age Pension Act 4. Labour Exchanges (job centres) 5. National Insurance Act
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What was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's role in medicine? How did she do this?
First female doctor. Trained through the Society of Apothecaries in 1865. Awarded a medical degree in 1870. Gained acceptance for female doctors.
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What did Watson and Crick discover?
Identified the structure of DNA being a 'double helix'. Human Genome Project identified all the genes in the human DNA. Can identify genetically inherited diseases to find cures and treatments.
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Who benefited from the Printing Press?
Vesalius used it to distribute his book 'The Fabric of the Human Body'/
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What did the Great Plague of London in 1665 highlight?
No progress in the ideas about the causation and treatments of diseases for 300 years.
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Explain the differences between Roman and Medieval medicine?
Public Health diminished. Government interest in hygiene gone. Acslepions gone. Education gone. Causes such as superstition and magic arrived (Black Death). Schools taught Galen, no new ideas - enforced by Church. Church hospitals.
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What developments were made by Hippocrates?
Hippocratic Corpus (books), Hippocratic Oath (made doctors obey rules of behavious in their professional lives, medical ethics), clinical observation (diagnosis, prognosis, observation, treatment).
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What is meant by the term 'Renaissance Man'?
The idea that a well educated person should be proficient in science and art. An example of this is Leonardo da Vinci who illustrated anatomy.
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What year was the first vaccination?
1796.
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When did cholera first come to England?
1831.
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What year was the Germ Theory published?
1857.
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What year was the 1st Public Health Act.
1848.
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In what year did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
1928.
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In what war did Florence Nightingale nurse in?
Crimean War.
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What invention helped the discovery of germs?
Microscope.
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Card 2
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How was Penicillin discovered?
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Alexander Fleming went to clean old culture dishes containing staphylococcal and, by chance, had discovered that a fungal spore had landed on the dish. The colonies of staphylococcal around the mould had stopped growing.
Card 3
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What was the Chadwick Report?
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Card 4
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Describe John Snow's role in medicine.
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Card 5
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What's the difference between the 1st Public Health Act and the 2nd Public Health Act.
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