Ideas and Beliefs about the causes of disease (1250 - present day)
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- Ideas and Beliefs about the causes of disease (1250 - Present day)
- 1250 - 1500
- Supernatural Beliefs
- Punishment - God
- Evil spirits living inside a person
- Astrology
- movement of planets and stars - causing disease
- Rational Beliefs
- Miasma - waste / dead bodies smell
- Four Humours
- too much phlegm
- need to restore balance
- too much phlegm
- Supernatural Beliefs
- Hippocrates
- "Father of medicine"
- Ideas were the bases of medieval medicine
- Four Humours
- Fluids inside body
- When imbalanced caused illness
- Hippocrates credited with this theory
- Fluids inside body
- Galen
- Ancient Roman Doctor
- Wrote over 350 textbooks
- Theories formed basis of European medicine until Renaissance
- Ancient Roman Doctor
- Examps of errors made by Galen
- Jaw in two parts
- Based of Pig Disection
- One kidney is higher than the other
- Based on monkey dissection
- Jaw in two parts
- Beliefs about the causes of illness that continued from the periods 1250-1500 into the renaissance (1500-1750)
- Punishment - God
- Supernatural
- Evil spirits living inside a body
- Supernatural
- Astrology
- Movement of planets and stars - causing disease
- Supernatural
- Movement of planets and stars - causing disease
- Miasma
- Rational
- Most ordinary people still believed in the four humours.
- Some doctors moved on
- Rational
- Some doctors moved on
- Punishment - God
- Thomas Sydenham
- Renaissance
- Rejected the four humour theory
- One new idea about causes that came about in the 1500
- External factor that weather can cause disease
- One idea about the cause of illness that continued into the renaissance period
- Miasma
- Linked to new but mistaken idea of Spontaneoud generation
- Miasma
- One new idea of the causes of diseases that developed after 1860
- Germ theory
- Louis Pasteur
- Developed Germ Theory
- Description of spontaneous Generation Theory
- Beliefs that bacteria materialised from decaying matter
- Disproved by Germ Theory
- Beliefs that bacteria materialised from decaying matter
- Description of Germ Theory
- Belief that bacteria is carried (into wounds, liquids etc) by dust particles in the air
- Don't materialise
- Belief that bacteria is carried (into wounds, liquids etc) by dust particles in the air
- Edwin Chadwick
- 19th century
- Did a survey on...
- Poor living standards
- Poor sanitation
- In industrial cities
- Poor living standards
- In industrial cities
- Significance of Edwin Chadwick
- Helped prove link between poor sanitation and increased chance of death from disease in poorer areas
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- Significance of the Great Stink in 1858
- Prompted parliament to acknowledge link between sanitation and disease and to do something about it
- E.g. Public Heath act 1875
- E.g. Bazaigette's new sewage system
- Prompted parliament to acknowledge link between sanitation and disease and to do something about it
- 1250 - 1500
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