Medicine Through Time

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Decks in this class (20)

1250-1500: Ideas about causes of disease and illness
What were supernatural and religi...,
What was the theory of the four h...,
What was the miasma theory
4  cards
1250-1500: Approaches to prevention and treatment
What religious action was taken t...,
What was the purpose of bloodlett...,
Why was the air purified
9  cards
Case Study: Dealing with the Black Death
What attempts were made to treat ...,
What attempts were made to stop i...
2  cards
1500-1700: Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
What ideas continued from medieva...,
How was francastro s theory of co...,
How did the work of thomas sydenh...
5  cards
Approaches to prevention and treatment
What were continuities in prevent...,
What treatment and care in the co...,
How did treatment and care change
5  cards
Case study: William Harvey and the discovering of the circulation of blood
What was the impact of harvey s d...
1  cards
Case study: Dealing with the Great Plague in 1665
What attempts were made to treat ...,
What attempts were made to stop i...
2  cards
1700-1900: Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
What was the spontaneous generati...,
What influence did pasteur s germ...,
What was the importance of koch s...
3  cards
Approaches to prevention and treatment: 1700-1900
What improvements were there in h...,
What was the specific influence o...,
What impact did anesthetics have ...
6  cards
Case study: Jenner and the development of vaccination
How did jenner develop his vaccine,
What supported the impact of jenn...
2  cards
Case study: Fighting Cholera in London in 1854
What attempts were made to stop t...,
What was the significance of john...
2  cards
1900-present day: Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
What has allowed rapid developmen...,
What has been learnt about the im...,
What has been learnt about the im...
4  cards
1900-Present day: Approaches to prevention and treatment
What was healthcare like in the f...,
What has the impact been of the nhs,
How has science and technology he...
7  cards
Case Study: The development of Penicillin and the role of Fleming, Florey and Chain
What role did individuals play in...,
What role did the government play...,
What role did science and technol...
3  cards
Case study: The fight against lung cancer in the 20th century
How did science and technology pl...,
How did government action help re...
2  cards
The context of the Western Front and what it was like to fight in Flanders
What was the ypres salient,
What happened at the somme arras ...,
How was the trench system organis...
6  cards
Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front
What illnesses arose because of t...,
What wounds did men suffer becaus...,
What were the consequences of shr...
4  cards
The work of the RAMC and FANY
What was it like being a stretche...,
What was it like for horse and mo...,
What were the stages of evacuation
8  cards
Experiments in surgery and medicine
What was the thomas splint,
How were mobile x ray units used,
How was a blood bank created at t...
4  cards
What was medicine like in the early 20th century?
What was people s understanding o...,
Why was aseptic surgery not possi...,
How had x rays developed
5  cards

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