Kinesiology 3363A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Physical Culture, Exercise Prescription, Pseudoscience

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3363A/B
• Professor: Kuiack Stephanie

Document Summary

Advances in chemistry, laboratory technique and precise medical equipment) Discovery of tubercle bacillus (responsible for tuberculosis) in 1882. Chicken cholera vaccination in 1885 (cholera accounted for approximately 2000 deaths per. From 1866, notions that disease was caused and cured by mental or spiritual power alone were circulated by the christian science movement. Nursing also came to the forefront as a profession in the victorian age due to the work of. Florence nightingale, who opened st. thomas hospital in 1852 to attend to some of the injured coming home from the crimean war. She proved that nurses could provide increased patient hygiene and nutrition that overworked doctors did not have the time to attend to, and revolutionized the medical world in doing so. Doctors were very broad (needed to know how to do all the things with the body back then);