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    This document summarizes the key themes and state of medicine in 1775, including major concepts like disease processes, scientific methodology, and prevention and treatment. It describes the 1770s world as having a smaller population living in villages or higher density cities with poor health. Nutritional and environmental diseases were common at the time. Doctors observed patients through narratives, appearances and excretions, and treated them with limited medicines, physiological agents like purging and bloodletting, and advice. The medical hierarchy included physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and local healers.

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    History of Modern Medicine Lecture 1 Notes UCLA

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    This document summarizes the key themes and state of medicine in 1775, including major concepts like disease processes, scientific methodology, and prevention and treatment. It describes the 1770s world as having a smaller population living in villages or higher density cities with poor health. Nutritional and environmental diseases were common at the time. Doctors observed patients through narratives, appearances and excretions, and treated them with limited medicines, physiological agents like purging and bloodletting, and advice. The medical hierarchy included physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and local healers.

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    Lecture 1: Course Intro &

    Medicine c. 1775
    Created Jan 07, 2020 2 13 PM
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    All tests are essay
    Major Course Themes
    Concepts of Disease
    Scientific Methodology
    Spectrum of Disease
    Recognition - Dx
    Surveillance and Control
    Prevention - Individual & Society
    Therapy - Medical or Surgical
    Minor Couse Themes
    Nature of Practitioner
    Education
    Hospital
    Other Institutions

    World of 1770's
    Smaller World Population
    Village Communities, Agriculture, Monarchs

    Lecture 1 Course Intro & Medicine c. 1775 1


    Higher density cities - extremely worse health than countryside
    Nutrition - no more famines
    Primitive Sanitations

    Nutritional Diseases
    Scurvy
    Gout
    Pellagra
    Rickets
    Environmental Diseases
    Malaria
    Dysentary
    Typhus
    Typhoid Fever
    Consumption Tuberculosis)
    Pnemonia
    Influenza
    Plague
    Cholera
    Epidemic Diseases
    Smallpox
    Measles
    Yellow fever
    Diptheria
    How did Doctor Observe
    Lecture 1 Course Intro & Medicine c. 1775 2
    Detailed Patient Narrative
    Physical Appearance
    Excrament Urine/Feces/Sweat)
    No instruments
    Doctors Thinking
    Disease was ongoing process of changes
    Diseases could change into each other
    Imbalance of elements, wholistic
    Doctor's Role - guide the process to the best route
    What does Doctor do 1780s?
    Advice - exercise, sleep, nutrition, cut drinking
    Give Small Number) of Medicines
    1. Opium Derivatives Laudanum)
    2. Mercury Kills Syphilis, but almost kills person)
    3. Cinchona Ground Tree Bark, treatment and prevention of Malaria,
    accidentally used on any type of fever)
    Physiological Agents - reinforce the idea that doctor had some power over the
    disease (even through natural body actually fought the disease)
    1. Purges - Powerful Laxatives
    2. Sweating, Vomiting, Diuretic Agents
    3. Blood Letting - Leeching, Belief that diseases are from too much blood
    Hierarchy of Medicine
    1. Physician - can read, university education, learned from books, and know latin
    2. Surgeons - "people of the hands", more knowledgable in anatomy, trained by
    apprenticeship

    Lecture 1 Course Intro & Medicine c. 1775 3


    3. Apothecary - Apprenticeship 7 years, "poor man's doctor", paid for product
    but still gave advice
    4. Healers - Knowledgable village women, know herbs, midwifes

    Lecture 1 Course Intro & Medicine c. 1775 4

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