Modern Medicine
This Service was launched by the British government in 1948 following the Second World War.
What is the NHS?
This institution had complete control over knowledge and ordinary people's understanding of disease.
What is the Church?
The theory that bad air causes disease
What is miasma?
This English nurse improved hospital conditions during the Crimean War, reducing the death rate dramatically.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This method of treating leg injuries helped prevent shattered bones from piercing the skin and causing further injuries to soldiers.
What is the Thomas Splint?
The world's first antibiotic. It helped treat fatal bacterial infections.
What is Penicillin?
This is the belief that the human body was also made up of four elements – yellow bile, phlegm, black bile and blood.
What is the Theory of the Four Humours?
This technological innovation helped spread new medical ideas quickly.
What is the printing press?
In 1796, this doctor successfully tested the first vaccine against smallpox using material from cowpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
This name was given to the area between enemy trenches were most soldiers got hurt
What is No Man's Land?
This chemical treatment kills specific diseases without harming the rest of the body.
This common medical treatment involved using leeches to remove blood from the body.
What is bloodletting?
This famous anatomist and physician dissected the bodies of criminals to understand human anatomy.
Who is Andreas Vasalius?
This act made it compulsory to provide clean water, proper sewage systems and rubbish disposal.
What is the Second Public Health Act?
This chemical prevented blood from clotting and allowed for it to be stored.
What is sodium citrate?
This English chemist took the first x-ray image of DNA in 1951.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Despite limited medical knowledge, medieval people often visited these individuals who used herbal remedies, charms, and experience to treat illnesses — especially in rural communities. Who were they?
Who were wise women?
These professionals had to complete apprenticeships and have a license to practice after 1500.
What are apothecaries?
This surgeon first used carbolic acid as an antiseptic in surgery, significantly reducing infections.
Who is Joseph Lister?
This pioneering surgeon developed new techniques in plastic surgery during WWI to rebuild the faces of soldiers with severe facial injuries
Who is Harold Gillies?
During World War II, penicillin was mass produced thanks to the work of these two scientists who developed ways to purify and manufacture it on a large scale.
Who are Florey & Chain?
This was a set of instructions given by physicians to maintain good health. It advised on diet, exercise, sleep, and avoiding bad air, and was often tailored to a person’s humours.
What is Regimen Sanitatis?
This physician discovered how blood circulates in the body and improved our knowledge of human anatomy
Who is William Harvey?
This 19th-century German doctor identified the microbes responsible for deadly diseases like anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera, and developed a series of methods for isolating and studying bacteria in the lab.
Who is Robert Koch?
This medical unit was located a safe distance from the frontline and became effective at performing emergency surgery.
What are Casualty Clearing stations?