GCSE Medicine 1700-1900
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- MEDICINE
- Causes of improvements in physiology and pathology
- Urbanisation
- Public health problems included 'filth diseases.'
- E.g. Cholera and Typhus
- Public health problems included 'filth diseases.'
- Growth of Wealth
- This was based on the growth of trade and industry.
- This created the money that was needed to be spent on medical research and public health.
- Improved communications
- This had allowed medical developments and research to be spread world-wide
- Doctors were able to keep up to date with the updates that were made on medicine
- E.g. Printing Press
- This had allowed medical developments and research to be spread world-wide
- Growth of Empires
- Which increased the contact with new diseases.
- E.g. Yellow Fever
- Which increased the contact with new diseases.
- Evolution and Genetics
- Evolution was discovered by Darwin and Genetics was discovered by Mendel.
- These discoveries had broke control of the church over medicine and medical ethics.
- Democracy and Socialism
- People had believed that they had the right to good health
- The right to health was one of the 'rights of man' claimed by working people during the French Revolution.
- Advances in Technology
- Led to new machines
- E.g. the electrocardiograph
- Led to new machines
- Large amounts of industry
- This caused more industrial diseases such as dermatitis, lung disease and 'phossy jaw.'
- Growth of Science and Research
- This included the works of Vesalius. His scientific break-through's were very important as they had disproved Galen's works and advanced medicne
- 'The Fabric of The Human Body'
- His ideas were able to spread.
- This included the works of Vesalius. His scientific break-through's were very important as they had disproved Galen's works and advanced medicne
- Wars
- Waged on a greater scale
- Created mass injuries and required new medical and surgical techniques.
- Waged on a greater scale
- Urbanisation
- Knowledge about Disease
- Louis Pasteur (France: 1860s)
- Discovered that germs cause disease
- Before discovering that bacteria caused disease, doctors had recognised that bacteria existed
- However, because they believed in the Spontaneous Generation, they believe that bacteria was a product of it
- He had also discovered Pasteurisation of milk
- This prevented the milk from turning sour by killing the germs - and sealing it from air
- Patrick Manson (Britain: 1876)
- Discovered that elephantiasis was caused by the nematode worm
- And that mosquitos were the vetor
- This was a major breakthrough as researchers had soon discovered that other tropical diseases such as Malaria and yellow fever were also carried by a vetor
- And that mosquitos were the vetor
- Discovered that elephantiasis was caused by the nematode worm
- Robert Koch (Germany: 1878)
- Had discovered how to stain and grow bacteria on a Petri Dish
- This had allowed him to discover which bacterium caused:
- He was also able to discover which bacterium caused:
- Had discovered how to stain and grow bacteria on a Petri Dish
- Charles Chamberland (France: 1884)
- Discovered viruses
- These are even smaller than bacteria
- Discovered viruses
- Louis Pasteur (France: 1860s)
- Causes of improvements in physiology and pathology
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