Medicine in 18th and 19th century Britain
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- Medicine in 18th and 19th Century Britain - Key people
- Louis Pasteur (French)
- Published Germ Theory in 1861
- Identified that germs caused disease and illness
- Unable to to identify specific germs
- People didn't believe Germ theory initially
- Robert Koch (German)
- used dye to identify microbes
- Took time for his work to be widely accepted
- identified anthrax spores (1876), and the bacteria that caused septicaemia (1878), tuberculosis (1882) and cholera (1883)
- Florence Nightingale (British)
- Published 'Notes on nursing' in 1859
- Improved conditions in hospitals - made sure they were clean and hygienic
- Nursed at hospitals in Crimean war
- James Simpson
- discovered effects of chloroform as anaesthetic
- Joseph Lister
- Used carbolic acid in surgeries for first time (1865)
- Start of antiseptic surgery - reducing infection risk
- Edward Jenner (British)
- published findings on vaccination for smallpox in 1796
- Vaccination not compulsory until 1852
- heard that milk maids who caught cowpox didn't catch small pox
- In 1769 his tested this on a small boy, injected him with pus from cowpox then weeks later with small pox, the boy didn't catch small pox
- John Snow (British)
- Discovered cause of cholera was unclean water in 1848
- Discovered Broad street pump was Cholera
- Government refused to pay for improvements
- Louis Pasteur (French)
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