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History of Medicine

Y11 - History of Medicine

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Hippocrates' theory of the four humours He believed illness was caused naturally not supernaturally. -1100Bc-323BC (Greeks)
Galen's theory of opposites He believed that opposite of the four humous could cure illness. -323BC-500AD (Romans)
Black Death This was caused by fleas on rats but many believed God was punishing them for their sins. -1348
Great Plague This killed around 100,000 people in London. -1665
Spontaneous Generation After discovering microbes in 1677, the main theory about how disease came about was spontaneous generation. This theory said that microbes appeared when something was diseased or rotting. They believed all microbes were generally the same. -1677
Spontaneous generation challenged Friedrich Henle was the first person to challenge the theory and suggest microbes were the cause of infection. -1840
Cholera This was a water-borne disease and caused many deaths as they didn't know the cause. -1830 - 1840
Specificity The idea that microbes are different and that different microbes cause different diseases. -1835
Pasteur's germ theory The idea that microbes and germs caused diseases and infection, not the other way around. -1857-1860
The great stink The heat wave in 1858 caused the government to invest in the underground sewers that are still in London. -1858
Joseph Lister He found that operations went well as long as the wound was kept free of infection. -1860
Germ theory comes to Britain Thomas Wells was the first to suggest a non-chemical cause of infection/disease. He used germ theory. -1864
Lister's first experiment Lister decided to use a chemical barrier to stop microbes from getting in- he used carbolic acid. -1865
John Tindall publicly supports germ theory The main view was still spontaneous generation but people started to believe in the germ theory after this. -1870
Germ theory becoming accepted more people were starting to believe this rather than spontaneous generation. -1874
Robert Koch advances germ theory He was able to identify microbes such as anthrax thanks to the germ theory. -1876
Germ theory accepted -1880s
Aseptic surgery Being completely free of harmful microbes. - 1890
National Health Insurance Act Part of the Liberal Social reforms and introduced unemployment benefit, free medical treatment and sickness pay. -1911
Beverage report William Beverage wanted the government to stop the 'laissez-faire' attitude. -1942
NHS This provided the public with free healthcare. This improved the public health and we still have it to this day. -1948
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