History of Medicine: The Key Factors

History of Medicine: The Key Factors

1. War

   • Florence Nightingale cleaning hospitals
   • Pare inventing new tools and techniques
   • Romans earn money
     • Funding for Public Health

2. Luck

   • Fleming's discovery of Penicillin

3. Science and Technology

   • The Printing Press
     • Knowledge spreads faster
   • Microscope
   • Roman Public Health systems
   • Vaccines
   • Industrial Rev.
     • Surgical tools

4. Individuals

   • See the Key Individuals mind map.
   • Hippocrates
   • Galen
   • Vesalius
   • Harvey
   • Pare
   • Chadwick
   • Jenner
   • Fleming
   • Snow
   • Nightingale
   • Koch
   • Pasteur
   • Curie

5. Teamwork

   • Florey & Chain
   • Vesalius used students to draw diagrams for his books

6. Attitudes and Beliefs

   • Religion slowing progress
     • "Disease was God's punishment"
   • Jenner's vaccination
     • People thought they'd start turning into cows from cowpox injections!
   • Challenging Galen and Hippocrates
     • Vesalius's anatomy discoveries
     • Harvey's circulation discoveries
     • The 4 Humors Theory discredited by Germ Theory
     • Many ideas stayed around until late Middle Ages!

7. Government

   • Roman Public Health
   • The NHS
   • Enforcing measures during plague
   • Medical education

8. Know something that needs adding? Please let me know, this is only a quick way of putting down what I know! I'm sure there is plenty I have missed.