BPS 1101 Study Guide - Lactam, Natural Material, Arsphenamine
10 Jul 2014
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Pple were scared of a simple cut because they could die. The doctor"s were covered from head to toe and had a mask in form of a beak. Miasma theory that bad smell caused the disease. Had a whole bunch of aromas in the mask; was believed that the aroma would counter the effects of the bad smell. Before penicillin, birth giving was very dangerous because any infection would probably kill you. Surgery gave you 70% chance of dying. More soldiers were killed of infection rather than combat. Used knowledge that microbes caused disease as well as spoilage to improve milk. If you heat milk at a low temperature, you maintain milk"s flavour and kill the baceteria. People debated this, thought that heating milk destroyed nutrients (wrong!) Idea of bad smell and god given diseases (miasma) was disproved in 1854 by john snow. Epidemiology: scientific approach to figure out where disease comes from.
