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What were the regimen sanitas?
Hippocrates' health advice
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How many hospitals were there by 1500?
1,100
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What happened to Roger Bacon?
put in prison in 1270 for suggesting doctors do their own work, not just follow Galen
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What did **** Whittington do?
set up 8 bed hospital for unmarried mothers
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Why did some people reject the 4 Humours during the Renaissance?
disease seen as separate to body (e.g. Paracelsus, body needs to be in harmony with its envrironment)
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What were animalcules?
what scientists saw under microscopes (actually bacteria)
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What was a new ingredient in herbal remedies during the Renaissance?
tobacco
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How were herbal remedies chosen in the Renaissance?
chosen for colour/shape that matched disease (jaundice +yellow)
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What was iatrochemisty?
using chemicals for cures
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what was used during the Renaissance to check the link between weather and disease?
barometers and thermometers
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What were fugitive sheets?
individual copies of medical pictures
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What were pest houses?
hospitals for plague victims
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Government action against the Great Plague
dogs and cats killed, tar burnt
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What did Copernicus and Galileo do?
challenge the Church's authority through astronomy (Sun at centre)
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Who invented Forceps?
1620, Chamberlen
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Who linked dirt and disease?
John Tyndall
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What were patent medicines?
cure-alls
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When was the first cottage hospital? (small hospital with nursing care and treatment from GP)
1859
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When were infirmaries introduced?
1867
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When was the smallpox vaccine made compulsory?
1852
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Why was ether a bad anaethestic?
vomiting and flammable
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Who did Jenner face opposition from
wealthy doctors and Christians
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What did Joseph Bazalgette do?
new London sewers
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When was the smallpox vaccine enforced?
1872
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What did Hodgkin do?
chemical structure of penicillin
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When was it made illegal to smoke in a car with someone under 18?
2015
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What did Mendel discover?
genes come in pairs
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When were ultrasound scans invented?
1940s
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When were CT and MRI (can see tissue) scans invented?
1970s
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When were blood tests invented?
1930s
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When were endoscopes invented?
1900
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What is microsurgery?
reattatching blood vessels
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