Zusammenfassung der Ressource
8. 20th Century Medicine
- Who treated illness?
- Doctors
- Surgeons
- Hospital
- NHS
- What did they think caused diseases?
- Germs
- Hygiene problem
- Treatment/Prevention
- Vaccinations
- Aseptic surgery
- X-Rays
- Blood Transfusion
- New drugs - Antibodies
- Key ideas
- Antibodies to treat
infections
- Other new
drugs to target
disease
- World War One
- Experiment on
new techniques
on wounded
- X-Ray used
frequently to locate
bullets/sharapnel
- Blood
transfusions were
used effectively
- Homes for heroes
- Good housing for
when they return
- World War Two
- Blood transfusions
improved
- Rationing
improved diets
- Penicillin was
developed
- Introduction of NHS
- The NHS
- 1911 National
Insurance Scheme
introduce for those that
worked
- The Beveridge Report by William
Beveridge Suggest FREE
healthcare service
- 1930s people
struggled to
pay
- 1946 NHS introduce
providing FREE
healthcare for everyone
- Aneurin Bevan
(Health Minister)
introduce the NHS
- Example of change
- New drugs:
- Penicillin
- Magic Bullet
- X-Ray and Blood
transfusions
- Free Healthcare (NHS)
- Better Understanding of
what causes disease
- Contraception
- Women Doctors and
surgeons
- Example of continuity
- Antiseptic and anaesthetics
- Key figures
- Alexander Fleming
- Penicillin was the first antibiotic
- Discovered Penicillin by
chance/accident
- Florey and Chain
- The drug was used to
save lives in WW2
- Couldn’t grow enough to test
until 1941
- Develop
Penicillin during
WW2
- British and American
government gave
money to develop the
drug
- William Beveridge
- Published the Beveridge
report in 1942
- Highlighting poor condition that
people were living in
- Published the Beveridge
report in 1942
- Aneurin Bevan
- A Labour Health
Minister
- Some doctors opposed the NHS to start
with as they lost money from private patients
- Didn’t like being told what to
- Introduce NHS (1946)
due to the Beveridge
report
- Ehrlich
- Found a magic bullet –
Salvarson 606 to treat
syphilis
- The magic bullet is a
chemical that kill the
disease without harming
the patient
- This was a new cure
to treat people with