Germ theory of disease

particularly Ohioans. Cholera is believed to have arrived in the US in 1832 with European immigrants and businessmen who had traveled across Lake Erie. The people who lived in the Cleveland area were the first ones in Ohio to contract cholera. This disease was more virulent in the cities because these places had poor sanitation systems.…

behaviour. Behaviourist The situation from this psychological perspective is ‘An indivual who has a severe phobia of germs and dirt.’ Having a phobia with something can be extremely hard to overcome especially if it’s a long term phobia, that if you encountered with it, you display certain behaviour that may not be seen as normal to others. The person who may have a severe phobia of germs and dirt could display a behaviour such as excessive hand washing, or excessive use of a hand sanitizer,…

Jared diamond’s book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is mainly to answer his indigenous New Guinean politician friend’s question, the Yali’s question and the questions about inequality that comes after Yali’s question. A big part of the question revolves around why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world in terms of guns, population-destroying germs, steel, and food-producing capability as compared to other continents? Regardless of all the conflicting evidence from anthropology…

Hope Schamberger Dr. Rothschild-Massa Waubonsee Community College 16, June 2017 Psychological Disease Assignment 1. The name of a serious mental health disorder is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). 2. Obsessive Compulsive disorder is considered a generalized anxiety disorder because, people with the disorder commonly have severe anxiety when their obsessions and compulsions are afflicting their mind. This disorder has also been associated with an Impulse control disorder, but because OCD is…

Asthma is one of most common respiratory system health hazards in our society lately. Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways that makes breathing difficult. Honestly, many researchers can't explain the reason for why it is so common. They do have many theories though, some say that the air quality and pollution can cause much harm to us. Two other theories about asthma being so common suggest that the small space of our homes, as well as the materials that make up our homes, promote the…

pertussis, also called whooping cough, before giving birth and passed it on to her son. Now the disease was wracking his little body and she could do nothing about it. She could have prevented this. There is a vaccine for pertussis that could have been administered to the mother during her pregnancy. This vaccine would not have protected the newborn baby, but it would have prevented exposure to the disease in the first place. But she had refused the vaccination. Now her little boy is fighting…

OCD is a mental disease that nearly everyone has heard of at least once in their life, but not many people actually know much about it. Some people think that it is simply another word for a person who likes things to be nice and orderly. This, however, is completely inaccurate, and the term should not be used as such. OCD is completely different than what most people think, and using it as another word for a tidy person can be very offensive to someone who actually has the disorder.…

surgeon, the poor people would go to a barber-surgeon and folk could go to an unlicensed herbalists or a folk healer. disease and illness was very common and easily spread as the concept hygiene was as foreign concept making it very easy for germs to spread. There were a lot of medieval killers, the…

medical treatments. Many diseases we can now treat today were deadly back then. There were many medical practices that did not help the patient, instead making the disease worse, sometimes even killing the patient. There were lots of diseases and problems people in the nineteenth century caught. Some of the most common caught were smallpox (a highly contagious life threatening virus caused by Variola marked by small dots on the skin), fever, cholera (a bacterial disease related to drinking…

DROPLET PRECAUTIONS These are used for organisms that can be transmitted by close, face-to-face contact, such as influenza or meningococcal meningitis. Droplet precautions include the following: ◊ Place client in private room ◊ If a private is not available, place client with another client who is infected with the same microorganism ◊ Wear a mask if working within 3 feet of the client. ◊ Limit movement of client outside the room to essential purposes. ◊ Place a surgical mask on the…