by advances in equipment such highlighted the poor hygiene of training of nurses began to as the Microscope in the 19th military hospitals and the high change rapidly after 1860 with Century. rates of infection and led to the establishment of nursing Florence schools. Nightingale’s pioneering work. Activity 10 How far did ideas about the treatment and prevention of disease change in the period how far ideas about treatments changed by plotting your own living graph and labelling some of the significant developments. If you had an infectious disease Patent Medicines began to Following the work of Pasteur doctors and other healers could develop painkilling like aspirin in and Koch, the bacteria that have done little to help 1880s. By 1900 companies like caused illness and disease were throughout the 19th Century Boots, Wellcome and Beechams gradually discovered and new since there were no antibiotics produced Medicines as vaccinations began to develop by yet discovered. treatments. the 1890s to eradicate many infectious diseases. In the 1850s and 60s Florence In 1798 Edward Jenner Old ideas of treatment such as Nightingale reformed Nursing discovered a vaccine for blood letting and purging along training. From 1867 Infirmaries smallpox but as unable to explain with herbal remedies continued (hospitals) began to be built by scientifically exactly how it to be used to treat the sick. local authorities. worked. Activity 11 Exam style questions 2 Explain one way in which the problems of public health were similar in the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. 4 marks 3 Explain why there was rapid change in the treatment of illness in Britain 1700-1900.You
by advances in equipment such as the Microscope in the 19th Century. highlighted the poor hygiene of military hospitals and the high rates of infection and led to Florence Nightingale’s pioneering work. training of nurses began to change rapidly after 1860 with the establishment of nursing schools. Activity 10 How far did ideas about the treatment and prevention of disease change in the period how far ideas about treatments changed by plotting your own living graph and labelling some of the significant developments. If you had an infectious disease doctors and other healers could have done little to help throughout the 19th Century since there were no antibiotics yet discovered. Patent Medicines began to develop painkilling like aspirin in 1880s. By 1900 companies like Boots, Wellcome and Beechams produced Medicines as treatments. Following the work of Pasteur and Koch, the bacteria that caused illness and disease were gradually discovered and new vaccinations began to develop by the 1890s to eradicate many infectious diseases. In the 1850s and 60s Florence Nightingale reformed Nursing training. From 1867 Infirmaries (hospitals) began to be built by local authorities. In 1798 Edward Jenner discovered a vaccine for smallpox but as unable to explain scientifically exactly how it worked. Old ideas of treatment such as blood letting and purging along with herbal remedies continued to be used to treat the sick. Activity 11 Exam style questions 2 Explain one way in which the problems of public health were similar in the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. 4 marks 3 Explain why there was rapid change in the treatment of illness in Britain 1700-1900.You