IGCSE History
Changes in Medicine c.1848-c.1948
Unit 1 Key Terms
Key Terms
Definitions
miasma
Four Humours
Theory of Opposites
Ether
Chloroform
Gangrene
Sepsis
Cholera
Key People
Definitions
Florence Nightingale
Robert Liston
William Morton
James Simpson
Edwin Chadwick
John Snow
Key Dates / Events
The Crimean War
The Black Period in Surgery
(1846-66)
Industrial Revolution
Public Health Act (1848)
The Broad Street Pump
(1854)
Definitions