Cause of illness
Theory that unpleasant smells (Year 11 boys) and harmful fumes cause disease.
Miasma
Name two years when public health acts were passed
1848, 1875
What are the three main problems with surgery
Pain, blood loss, infection
Who was known as the 'Lady with the Lamp?'
Florence Nightingale
What did most soldiers in the Crimean War die off?
Disease (cholera, typhoid)
Theory that rotting material creates maggots, fleas and disease
Spontaneous Generation
Man associated with the 1848 Public Health Act
Edwin Chadwick
Why was Robert Liston considered a good surgeon?
He was very strong and very quick (at sawing)
Where was the Nightingale School for the training of nurses?
St Thomas's Hospital in London
Name three World War I gases
Mustard, Chlorine, Phosgene, Tear
Name the 4 humours
Black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm
What happened in 1858 to affect the way that Parliament though about public health?
The Great Stink (or the Year 11 day house as we call it today)
Name three substances used to reduce pain for surgery.
Ether, Chloroform, Cocaine
Who was the first female doctor in the UK?
Elizabeth Garrett
Where did injured soldiers go after a dressing station if they were critical?
Casualty Clearing Station
Started his theory by studying anthrax
Robert Koch
Beveridge's Report - what were the 5 'giant evils'
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness
Who first used carbolic acid as an antiseptic?
Joseph Lister
What was Elizabeth Garrett's daughter called? (she founded the Womens' hospital Corps in WWI)
Louisa
What was the RAMC?
Royal Army Medical Corps
Name 2 of the 4 basic principles of germ theory
air contains living organisms, they cause decay, they are not evenly distributed, they can be killed with heat
1875 act which helped demolish slum housing
Artisans' Dwellings Act
Where was Harold Gillies from?
New Zealand
What did Marie Curie win 2 nobel prizes for?
Chemistry and
What was QAIMNS?
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service