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Foynesfr Patterns of
Health and Medicine- Patterns of Change
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Medicine and Healthcare in Ancient Greece and Rome | Illness was a punishment from the Gods Offerings to the gods cured illnesses Hippocrates - Father of Medecine - sickness is due to imbalance in the four humours (liquids) of the body - blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile |
| Understanding the body and anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome | Human dissection was banned. Galen of Pergamon experimented on animals as he thought they were similar to humans. Made a lot of wrong conclusions. |
| Public Health in Ancient Greece and Rome | Rich people could afford to pay doctors fees. Poor people went to healers for herbal mixtures - a lot of these did not work |
| Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages | Illness and disease was very common Cramped, dirty living conditions No sanitation Fleas carried diseases Wounds often got infected Very poor diet Common diseases - leprosy, smallpox and influenza |
| Treatments in the MIddle Ages | Bleeding - cutting people so they lost blood cupping - drawing liquids to the body surface with hot metal cups leeching - leeches are sucking blood out of the body Amputation - cutting off limbs |
| Women's health in the Middle Ages | No difference in how men and women were treated. Doctors did not attend birth. Midwives had little training. One in 40 childbirths ending in the death of the mother. |
| Public Health in the Middle Ages | No consistent medical training. Most doctors trained through apprenticeships Monasteries set up the first hospitals |
| Medicine in Health Care in the Renaissance | Harvey discovered the heart pumped blood around the heart. This improved surgeries and treatment of wounds. |
| Understanding the body and anatomy in the Renaissance | After the Reformation, there was a lot more dissection of bodies. Andreas Vesaluis dissected many human bodies and published detailed drawings of the human body which improved surgeries |
| The Discovery of Germs in the Renaissance | Development of Germ Theory - germs cause disease Important work done by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch Now doctors undertood how diseases were caused so could work on proper treatments |
| The Discovery of Vaccines in the Renaissance. | Vaccines help fight off disease. First vaccine developed by Edward Jenner for smallpox in 1796. Followed by vaccines for typhoid (1896), tuberculosis (1921) and polio (1955) |
| Women's Health in the Renaissance | Doctors helped women in childbirth Death rates in childbirth fell due to germ theory and awareness about cleaning intruments, disinfection and washing hands |
| Public health care in the Renaissance | Work by councils on improved sanitation, clean water and rubbish collection reduced cholera First large scale hospitals built, often by charities who treated the poor. Increased cleanliness on hospital wards and sterilisation (due to germ theory) |
| Advances in Medicine in the 20th Century | New drugs such as penicillin created by Alexander Fleming in the 1920s which treats bacterial infections Painkillers and insulin for diabetics developed. |
| Surgery Advances in the 20th Century | Development of Xrays, MRIs, blood transfusions, heart bypasses, organ transplants |
| Women's Health in the 20th Century | Contraception developed - women could control when they had children More aid in labour such as induction and and epidurals (painkillers) Ultrasound allowed pregnancies to be monitored IVF developed to assist couples who could not have children |
| Public Health in the 20th Century | After world war 2 the welfare state developed - this meant people could access full health care, often free of charge |
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