‘ After the Romans left Britain the progress they had made in public health did not continue’ Do you agree? Explain your answer. (16 marks) When the Romans left Britain it was difficult for their progress in public health to continue. This was because they took their knowledge and expertise with them. For example, there were no longer any engineers left who knew how to build or maintain aqueducts.
Something that surprised me is that both of Gawande’s article connect. For example, in “Slow Ideas” he writes that a simple solution of sugar, salt, and water could eliminate cholera in Dhaka, but the solution wasn’t popular, many didn’t use it and people still died. Then, in “Big Med” Gawande writes that doctors know a solution for migraines, but doctors don’t use it or tell their patients about it. Here are ideas that could help people have a better living yet they are slow in being
Also the universities are guilty for incidents, because they didn’t make as much examination for all safety accidents as now. Furthermore, as the writer claims, fault for those accidents has Department of Homeland Security. They distribute the project devices to universities “with no –safety related requirement”. State feels displeasure for those accidents, and rebook everyone to prevent those accidents that are present everywhere. Since students attend colleges to learn and to educate, colleges should guarantee a safety environment, especially their labs.
Before 1744 there was no specific legislation regarding lunacy with in Britain at all, the Madhouses Act of 1744 was designed to regulate the private madhouses and asylums, however this Act proved largely ineffective due to the fact that anyone could obtain a licence and open a private madhouse which lead to abuse being wide spread through the system. The Royal College of Physicians of London regularly received reports of gross abuse of patients, however there was very little they could do about it. The 1744 Act also gave power to any two justices to apprehend any pauper lunatic who could then be detained at will, it is fair to state that the intention of this Act had not been to help or treat the mental ill, but was instead meant to ensure
Before mental hospitals opened, a person with a mental illness was usually isolated from others and had to stay home, with the idea that rest and absolutely NO work would cure the mental illness. As the writer of this summary and before I read the article “The Yellow Wallpaper” I had never put much thought into the ideas and treatments of mental health in the 1800’s. So like many of you may experience from reading this summary I was surprised at the treatment someone with a mental health issue would face. There were very few hospitals that treated mental health issues and anyone suffering from mental illness was considered an outcast of the society. As a fellow spectator you will experience the transition from late 1800’s mental health treatment to the treatments we have available today.
Medieval surgeons also realised how to use wine as an antiseptic Why did the Ancient Greeks make more progress in medicine than people in the Middle Ages? Explain your answer (8) Religion had a massive hinder in the middle ages because they believed God caused illness, so they wouldn’t look for other cause. So they couldn’t improve on treatments, as God sent the illness, all you had to do was pray. Then you would be cured. They also believed Galen was right, so there was no need to find other cures.
Poor nutrition has been shown to contribute to poor wound healing (Timmons, 2003) and is therefore, an aspect of patient care that needs to be addressed. It was prominent that the ward did not have any information leaflets for patients and their family to support the verbal information/health promotion given from staff. Taking into account that Kemp (2001) estimated that 2/3 of patients admitted to hospital are at nutrition compromise and that the NHS spends up to £2 billion a year on wound management (WHRU, 2007), this seemed to be a justifiable area in need of further research.
And that is to try to evade the topic and to dodge the issues that come with it. In fact, 4.5 minutes or less in an entire school year was devoted to Vietnam in the 1980s. No textbooks question whether the war in Vietnam was right or ethical. It seems, in fact, that textbooks try their utmost to mystify Vietnam. But this injures students educationally as well.
However this was dismissed until 1854 where he proved that people using the water pump at Broad Street were dying as a result of a leaching cesspool. This forced the removal of the pump, nevertheless, this did not force a Public health act, unlike Chadwick, as many scientists clung to the idea that miasmas caused disease. John Bazalgette also played a role in the improvement of public health, especially the sewerage under London. He built 83 miles of main sewers and had a pumping station which moved the water away from the water supplies. This helped improve public health as it stopped the cross pollution of water and sewage and made water safer to
Later on when the council started taking more responsibility, new roads were often built over the previous ones, without bothering to clean them. In London ancient Roman ruins are found at 20 feet below today’s street level. Even though people were supposed to be responsible for the part of the street in front of their house, they never showed much concern and never tried to keep it clean. The only exceptions were during an outbreak of the plague or a royal visit. This wasn’t the only problem for sanitation in the medieval cities.