Pharmacy Presentation
Transcript: Health & Medicine in the 19th Century Diseases during the scientific era. Small pox,cholera,typhus,bubonic plague,influenza. There were no treatents. Tobacco was used as medacine. During this time it was used for headaches, respiratory failure, stomach cramps, colds and drowsiness. A person with a mental illness was usually isolated from others and had to stay home at all times. PHARMACY CLASS OF 2013-2014 Medicines during this time were not tested often; therefore, medicine killed as many as it cured. The Scientific Era (1500's-1800's) Early Victorian ideas of human physiology involved a clear understanding of anatomy but the populace often had hazy knowledge of the location and role of internal organs 'Patent electric-medical machine', Davis and Kidder, Britain, 1870-1900. Science Museum/Science and Society Picture Library Doctors medicole machinery Florence Nightingale: (Born May 12, 1820) -She started the first official nursing program. Way's to study human vane's The First Blood Pressure Examination The Scientific Era/Florence Nightingale By: Jose C, Alberto S-R, and Julio B In the early 19th century and further back, Gangrene, a common infection that occurs on the battlefield, would affect many wounded soldiers. Due to the lack of antibiotics like penicillin to slow down and treat the infections, surgeons were forced to amputate infected limbs which stop the infection from spreading out through the body causing death During the 17th and 18th centuries, scientific and medical knowledge advanced at an extraordinary pace. Many of Galen’s misconceptions were finally overturned. The Englishman William Harvey (1578-1657) accurately described the circulation of blood in the body, confirming the findings of earlier scholars (such as Ibn Nafis and more recent Europeans). He added the critical experimental finding that blood is "pumped" around the body by the heart. Florence Nightingale "Religion, superstition, and fear were replaced by reason and knowledge." -James Hannam Treatments of Gangrene gangrene after several months Untreatable Disease Hospitals in the 1600's and 1800's