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Who was Edwin Chadwick
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Reported on the effects of poverty and poor living conditions on health and recommended Public Health Reform (1847). This led to a Public Health Act (1848).
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Government: Gave Chadwick the job of investigating sanitation and, eventually, introduced his recommendations. |
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Who was Florence Nightingale
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Professionalised nursing and improved conditions in hospitals, first during the Crimean War and later in UK. Started a nurses Training School and wrote ‘Notes on Nursing’ both in 1860.
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Religion: Felt that God called her to work.
Government: Asked her to go to Scutari and supported her efforts for change. War: Crimean War success made her famous and allowed ideas to spread |
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Who was Louis Pasteur
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Developed Germ Theory (1864) – proved that germs held in the air led to decomposition.
Develops vaccines for Chicken Cholera, Anthrax and Rabies. |
The microscope – allowed him to study microbes. |
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Who was Joseph Lister
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Used Carbolic Acid spray as an antiseptic during surgery in order to kill the germs in the air. (1865-67)
This cut his post-operative mortality rate to 5%. |
Pasteur’s work on Germ Theory. He used this idea to try to cut deaths from infection.
Prior knowledge – Carbolic Acid had been used before to make sewage safe as a fertiliser. Publishing – the growth of medical journals meant new ideas could be easily shared |
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Ernest Chain and Howard Florey
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They developed the way to mass produce penicillin which has since saved thousands of lives and made many other better more quickly
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Fleming’s research. |
