KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER - TOPIC THREE: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION MEDICINE 1700-1900
KEY WORDS
SUMMARY
1
The Industrial Revolution period was the period between 1750-1900 also
known as the 18th and 19th centuries. It was an age of breakthroughs
KEY EVENTS
19.
Aseptic Surgery
Surgery where microbes are kept out of the wound in the first place, rather
than being killed by antiseptic.
20.
Anaesthetics
Drugs given to unconsciousness before and during surgery
21.
Surgery
Period’
22.
Chloroform
A liquid whose vapour is used as an anaesthetic
23.
Germ Theory
The theory that germs cause disease, often by infection through air
‘Black
Period when anaesthetics were used and the death rate in surgery went up as
doctors attempted complex surgery.
2
1796-98 – Jenner develops the Smallpox vaccination
3
1847 – James Simpson discovers chloroform as an anaesthetic
5
1854 - John Snow’s discovers the link between the 1854 cholera outbreak
and the Broad Street pump.
6
1854 - Florence Nightingale treats wounded solders in the Crimean War
7
1859 – Nightingale publishes her ‘Notes on Nursing’
24.
Infection
The formation of disease causing germs or bacteria
8
1860 – The ‘Florence Nightingale School of Nursing’ opens
25.
Inoculation
9
1861 – Pasteur discovers the Germ Theory
Infecting the body with a disease in order to help it fight a more serious attack
of the disease later
10
1866 – Joseph Lister begins to use carbolic acid as antiseptic in surgery
26.
Vaccinations
Injection into the body of weak organisms to give the body resistance against
disease
11
1875 – The Second Public Health Act
27.
Anthrax
An infectious disease
12
1881 – Pasteur develops a vaccination for anthrax
28.
Smallpox
13
1882 – Robert Koch discovers bacteria causes tuberculosis
A dangerous disease, which was a major cause of disease until beaten by
vaccination.
14
1895 - William Rontgen discovers x-rays
29.
Patent Medicines
Medicine sold for profit. In the Industrial Revolution many of these medicines
had no medical benefit at all.
30.
Dispensary
Where medicines are given out.
31.
Public Health
The well-being of the whole population
32.
Poor Law Unions
Local organisations set up to take care of the poor and unemployed
A tiny living organism, only seen by microscope, which
causes disease
33.
Privies
Public toilets outside houses
KEY WORDS
15.
16.
Enlightenment
Bacteria
Idea in the 18th century that people should think for
themselves and authorities like the church and nobility
should not control everyday life
17.
Antibodies
Parties inside the body that fight and remove germs.
34.
Cesspit
A pit for storing sewage or waste
18.
Antiseptics
Chemicals uses to destroy bacteria & prevent infections
35.
Workhouses
Accommodation for the poorest people, they had to work there for rent..
Families were also split up.
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