Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Key Individuals
- Women
(Crimean war)
- Florence Nightingale
- She was from an upper-class family who was against her career
- She was a self-taught nurse
- She was expected to marry
- She supervised nurses during the war
- She worked in military hospitals, she
cleaned hospitals and had
government funding during the war
- She returned as a national
heroine who improved hygiene
and wrote a handbook for nurses
- Mary Seacole
- Her mother was a doctressIn Jamaica
- She was mixed
race
- She was a 'hands-on' nurse with her approach
- She created a - hotel - rest home for wounded soldiers
- She was self-financing when working in war
- Mary Seacole was not recognised for her work
- She left a legacy that all people can contribute to medicine
- The Renaissance
- Vesalius
- Dissected humans rather than animals
- Proved that Galen was wrong, with over 200
corrections to Galen's anatomy (including the
lower jaw doesn't have 2 bones and that the
liver has two not five lobes
- Worked with skilled artists to accurately document the anatomy
- In 1543, he published 'On the fabric of the
human body' where he included the
anatomical sketches
- Still didn't know the cause of
illness
- Pare
- French army surgeon for 20 years and experimented on wounded soldiers
- He ran out of hot oil for sealing
wounds so he instead used an
old Roman ointment
consisting of rose oil, egg yolk
and turpantine
- Pare used ligatures (as an alternative to cauterising)
wounds which has a higher success rate
- He was a surgeon for French Kings and published 'Notes on surgery' in 1564
- Had limited impact on British medicine as only the rich could
afford medical care and only trained doctors knew about him
- Bezoar stone isn't a treatment for poison
- Harvey
- Doctor for King James I and King Charles I, because of this he
was in a strong position to influence medicine in Britain
- He proved veins had valves and that the heart pumped
blood
- Proved that the liver didn't produce blood and questioned bleeding
- Published 'On the Motion of the Heart' in 1628
- Dissected on live cold blooded
animals and dead humans
- Rejected by conservatives who
supported Galen and people who could
not see capillaries until 60 years later
- Fighting Disease
- Koch
- He stained individual germs that identified disease
- Identified causes for Tuberculosis 1882, Cholera 1883, Tetanus 1884,
Pneumonia 1886, Meningitis 1886, Plague 1894 and Dysentery 1898
- He reduced effects of Diptheria
- Jenner
- Vaccinated people from smallpox with cowpox
- Eradicated smallpox
- In 1883 all children within 4 months of birth
were given mandatory, government
vaccinations but in 1887 parents could refuse
- Remained the only smallpox vaccination until the 1880s
- Chain and Florey
- They were two Oxford Chemists
who read Fleming's work
- In 1940 they turned their lab into a
growing chamber and conducted
their first human trials
- They went to the USA after
the Pearl Harbour attacks
and they agreed to produce
penicillin
- Chain stabilised penicillin as a liquid
- Fleming
- He was a bacteriologist that was trying to discover how to kill
staphylococci with bacteria when penicillium mould floated in after
leaving his window open in 1928
- In 1929 he used the juice of the mould
to cure his colleague of conjunctivitus
- He discovered the antibiotic
qualities of penicillin
- Pasteur
- Discovered that germs
caused disease
- Published 'Germ theory' in 1861
- Vaccines for Cholera and Rabies in 1879 and 1872
- Suggested that germs caused decay rather
than decay causing bacteria to form
- He proved his theory in 1864 through a series
of experiments, disproving others
- Created vaccines for chicken cholera 1879,
Anthrax 1881 and Rabies 1882
- Hunter
- Admitted to the Company of Surgeons
in 1768 and trained hundreds
- Experimented on himself, illegally bought bodies
and 3000 animals
- In 1771 and 1768 he published 'Natural history of teeth' and
'On veneral disease' which was translated into 7 languages
- Spread discoveries of Cancer, nature of
disease, infections and blood circulation
- 19th Century
- Chadwick
- Research the living conditions and health of the poor in towns
- Published his findings in 'Report on the Sanitary
Conditions of the Labouring Population'
- Linked poverty and poor living conditions with ill-health
- Lister
- He was a
Hungarian doctor
- In 1847 he noticed that more women were dieing after labour
when their baby was delivered by a medical student
- He told people to wash their hands with chlorine
- He started using carbolic
acid from 1865 onwards
- He began to publish his knowledge in 1867 and other surgeons used his
methods
- The death rate from
amputation fell
from 50% to 15%
- People now knew that unsterile material caused infection i.e. dirty clothes
- An organic compound extracted from coal tar could be used as an antiseptic
- Bazalgette
- He assessed London's sewers
- He designed
underground
sewers
- His plans were accepted in 1858
during the Great Stink
- He designed pumps and reservoirs to ensure that sewage would be pumped
while the tide was going in
- It cost £3 million
- Simpson
- He was a Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University
- Wanted to find a better anaesthetic than Ether,
commonly used in 1846, as it irritated the lungs
- In 1847 he realised that chloroform had no negative side
effects and started using it in operations
- Not fully excepted until it was used by Queen
Victoria during childbirth in 1853
- Stopped being used by some in 1870 as
it didn't stop blood loss and led to more
infections
- Snow
- In 1854 he was appointed to assess the
Cholera outbreak in Broadstreet, Soho
- He was a physician who discovered the disease was
linked to contaminated water, going against
scientific knowledge of the time
- He went to a factory were 12 workers had died but
when going to a brewery no one was infected after
only drinking beer or from the factory's well
- The death toll was 616 in 8 days
- Farr
- Introduced compulsory registration of
births, marriages and deaths
- Made the government more
aware of public health issues