[MGY377H1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (41 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Edward jenner developed the use of cowpox as a vaccine against smallpox. Variolation giving people a dose of smallpox virus hoping to induce a less severe form of the disease. (only measure available back then to prevent smallpox) used puss from milkmaids who were infected with cowpox to vaccinate people. John snow mapped the cases of cholera in london to determine that the infection came from a contaminated water pump on broad street. Childbed fever typically killed women who gave birth in hospitals at the time. He noted that two clinics in the hospital had starkly different mortality rates. The one with the doctors killed more patients than the clinic run by midwives. He noticed that doctors performed autopsies on dead patients and then attending deliveries of babies sometimes with blood still on their hand (midwives didn"t perform autopsy). He said to wash your hands with bleach and water after performing autopsy and before delivering baby.
