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When was The Black Death?
1348
What were the ideas about the cause of disease in medieval England (1250-1500)?
Supernatural and religious
The four humours
Black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm
What was the theory of miasma?
Bad smelling air caused disease
Who were the key individuals in medieval medicine?
Galen and Hippocrates
Who were the key individuals in renaissance medicine?
(Andreas) Vesalius, (Thomas) Sydenham and (William) Harvey
What did William Harvey discover?
The circulation of the blood
What did Andrea’s Vesalius discover?
modern Human anatomy
What did Thomas Sydenham discover?
You diagnose patients through observation
When was the Royal Society discovered?
1660
When was the print and press invented?
1440
When was the great plague?
1665
Ideas about the causes of disease in the 18th-19th century?
Germ theory
public health act
1875
Who were the key individuals in 18th-19th century medicine?
Florence nightingale, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Edward Jenner, John snow, James Simpson, Joseph lister
Who discovered vaccination
Edward Jenner (1796)
Which nurse helped out in the Crimean war?
Florence nightingale (1854)
Which person discovered cholera?
John snow (1854)
Who discovered germ theory
Louis Pasteur (1861)
Who discovered carbolic acid as an antiseptic?
Joseph lister (1867)
Who discovered chloroform
James Simpson (1847)
Ideas about the cause of disease in modern medicine?
Lifestyle and genetics
When was the nhs discovered?
1948
Who were the key individuals in modern medicine?
Fleming, Florence and chain, crick and Watson
What did Alexander Fleming discover?
penicillin (1928)
What did Florey and chain do?
Help mass produce penicillin
advances in modern medicine
Surgery, magic bullets, antibiotics
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