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Science in the Victorian Era
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Science in the Victorian Era
Science and Religion
- By the 1870s and 80s in Britain science and religion were turning in to seperate fields of study
- In the British Victorian era science and religion were thought to go hand in hand
- Contrary to that though, in other countries such as France it was believed that God played a restricted or even non existing roll in the universe
- Geologists and Astronomers in Britain were making scientific discoveries that had discrepancies with biblical stories, however the majority of the religious
scientific community would
reinterpret the bible in
order to maintain their religious beliefs
Environmental Science
Air Pollution in the Victorian Era
- England had many industrial towns which omitted thick black smoke
- buildings were blackened
- city filled with “London fog” commonly known as smog
- the smog had periods of thickness which could kill thousands of people - lead to the Clean Air Act of 1952
- blocked ¾ of sunlight
- growing city sizes increased pollution
- country life became an amenity
- because the country property was so vast, it was rarely regulated & the land was exploited
- Gregorian London considered clean by most people & had “healthy” climate
- Victorian reputation for filthiness came from the unexpected and swift cholera epidemic of 1832
- The epidemic was blamed on pollution
- underground sewage systems first introduced
- sewage dumped into Thames river, causing rapid physical deterioration, became known for its filth
- approximately 250 tons of sewage were discharged daily into the Thames river in the 1850s
- when it rained the Thames flooded and refuse washed onto the shore
- byproducts of slaughterhouses and cattle yards drained into the Thames for centuries
Sewage In the Victorian Era
Medical Development
- First half of the century the medical world was raising the expectation that treating the human body could be exact a science as knowledge of the body
- Practitioners were now well educated
- Hospitals became important centers for the study of Morbid Anatomy after the Anatomy Act of 1832 which stated that any unclaimed body would would be sent there for dissection
- New drugs were isolated that advanced pharmacology such as Morphine, Codeine and Iodine
- Diseases were clinically distinguished from each other
- Doctors and surgeons didn't help very much to cure the diseases that they made the public aware of
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