Britain: Health and the People c1000 to the present day.

Part 1: Medicine Stands Still

Hippocrates Al Razi Impact of Christianity Impact of Islam The Black Death
(Rhazes) 1348
Time Period: Beliefs about causes:
Religion:
What did he do? What did he do?

Real causes:

What was his impact on medicine? What was his impact on

medicine? Treatments:

Loss of knowledge after the fall of the Roman Empire

865-925
Dark Ages 450AD – 1066AD

460-370BC 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400

129-210AD
Medieval Period
980-1037
Galen Ibn Sina What did a medieval Medieval Public Health Impact of the Black Death
(Avicenna) doctor know? Towns Monasteries
Time Period: Short Term:
Religion:
What did he do? What did he do?

Long Term:

What was his impact on medicine? What was his impact on

medicine?

1351 – Statute of Labourers

Key features of medieval surgery:

Factors for change in medicine: Branches of medicine

Role of individuals. Luck/Chance Warfare Treatment of disease. Surgery Public Health
(ToD) (S) (PH)
Religion Government Technology
 Britain: Health and the People c1000 to the present day. Part 2: The beginnings of change.

Impact of the Andreas Vesalius Ambroise Pare William Harvey Growth of Hospitals John Hunter
Renaissance on Britain 1514-1564 1510-1590 1578-1670 1719-1779 1728-1793

Name meaning: What did he do? What did he do? What did he do? Examples of new Hospitals. What did he do?

This was a time of:

Features of new Hospitals:

What was his impact on What was his impact on What was his impact on What was his impact on
This meant that old ideas medicine? medicine? medicine? medicine?
(Hippocrates and Galen)
were…
Hospital Boom:
c.1400 – The Renaissance

1400 1500 1600 1700

Invention of Printing Press The Dissolution of the The Great Plague Edward Jenner
1451 Monasteries – 1530s 1665 1749-1823
Key person:
Causes: Treatments: What did he do?
What happened: Beliefs about causes: Superstitious:

Real causes: Rational:

Impact on health:
What was his impact on
medicine?

Renaissance – traditional and new treatments. Why did the Great Plague end? Impact on public health

Traditional treatments: New treatments:

Factors for change in medicine: Branches of medicine

Role of individuals. Luck/Chance Warfare Treatment of disease. Surgery Public Health
(ToD) (S) (PH)
Religion Government Technology
 Britain: Health and the People c1000 to the present day. Part 3: A Revolution in Medicine
Developments in Anaesthetics. James Simpson Theories about Understanding Germs and Disease Factors in development of Germ
Nitrous 1827-1912 Spontaneous Contagionists Theory
Oxide Generation
Germ Theory 1861
What did he discover?

Ether What was his impact on

medicine?
Louis Pasteur Robert Koch
Chloroform Impact on medicine: Impact on medicine:
Joseph Lister
Impact on medicine:

Reasons for How did he build on Pasteur’s work?

opposition to
anaesthetics: Reasons for opposition:
Reasons for opposition:

Reasons for opposition?

c.1800 – The Industrial Period

1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890
“The death of Laissez-Faire
Politics.”

Industrial towns Cholera Epidemic: London - 1831-1839 The Great Stink Conservative Party
Public Health Reforms.
Problems caused by: Causes: The Chadwick Report 1858
Population growth: Beliefs about causes: 1875
Housing
Act
Real causes: The First Public Health Act 1848
Back to Back Housing:

1875
Second
Public
Disease in slums: Health
Act
John Snow
What did he do? Impact on Joseph Bazalgette
Medicine? Impact on public health:
1875
Government action: Sale of
Food and
Drugs
Act

Factors for change in medicine: Branches of medicine

Role of individuals. Luck/Chance Warfare Treatment of disease. Surgery Public Health
(ToD) (S) (PH)
Religion Government Technology
 Britain: Health and the People c1000 to the present day. Part 4: Modern Medicine
The Boer War Reports on lives of the poor Liberal Social Reforms William The Welfare Development of the NHS Modern treatments
1899 Seebohm Charles Booth
Key reforms Beveridge State and surgical
What did the British School meals: What did he do? Key features: methods.
army find when Rowntree 1902
recruiting during the Examples of modern
Boer War?
1901 treatments and surgical
Children’s health: methods:
Costs of the NHS

Poverty and housing:

How did the
What was his
government respond impact on
to this? What did they
Impact on public
medicine?
find? health: Causes – why have these
21 Century Health Care
st developed in late 20th
Impact of social reforms on Century?
public health:

Impact of reports
How did these reports change the way people
viewed the government?
c.1900 – The Modern Period

1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950

Paul Ehrlich World War One Alexander World War Two Growth of the Antibiotic resistance
What did he do? 1914-1918 Flemming 1939-1945 Pharmaceutical Definition:
Key medical developments What did he do? Key medical developments during WWI: Industry
during WWI: Why did the discovery of
penicillin cause this Why does this happen?
growth?

Impact on public health/surgery/disease? Examples:

What was his

impact on Impact on public What was his impact on Examples of companies:
medicine? health/surgery/disease? medicine?
Alternative medicine
Why has popularity increased?
Florey and Chain
What did they do? What was their impact? Impact:
Examples:

Factors for change in medicine: Branches of medicine

Role of individuals. Luck/Chance Warfare Treatment of disease. Surgery Public Health
(ToD) (S) (PH)
Religion Government Technology