He worked in mental health care hospitals in New Jersey and South Carolina. In 1853 Dorothea Dix brought Bryce to the attention of the trustees. He was selected to be the new superintendent for the hospital and moved into a house on the AIH grounds with his wife when the hospital opened in 1861. Bryce instituted a new system called the moral approach system. This viewed patients as having both mental
Though the reasons for this were not understood, the very beginning of the studies of medical geography. Another major turning point in this field was the major outbreak of cholera in the mid 1800s in London, when Doctor John Snow plotted the distribution of deaths from cholera throughout London on a map. A major point in medical geography is the spreading of diseases, which was the main storyline in the movie Contagion. The highly contagious unfamiliar, unnamed disease, which killed people at unbelievably high rates, started from one person, Beth Emhoff who made contact with many people in Chicago, and later spread to her son, who went to his school and spread it to people there, before he died from it. This is known as an epidemic, meaning a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time, with the exception that this outbreak was taking place almost worldwide.
A European physician, Professor A Weichselbaum, discovered the cause of the mysterious cerebro-spinal meningitis illness in 1887 and Penicillin was the first antibiotic used to fight the disease. In 1978 the first vaccine was created and mass vaccinations during that year caused a substantial decline in the number of meningitis outbreaks (Fredericks, n.d.). There are three main types of meningococcal disease serogroups: B, C, and Y. Worldwide there are also A and W-135. USA vaccines cover A, C, W-135, and Y but not B (Coffee, 2015).
After the Memphis epidemic, an engineer named George Waring developed and had installed a model sewer system for the city that included separate drainage systems for household wastes and rain water. This Waring System has become a standard feature in the sanitation systems of American cities and worldwide. Mosquito and other insect control, immunization, and sanitation are the current foundations for the prevention of yellow fever and many other infectious diseases. The beginnings of a scholarly approach to medicine in the United States, and the establishment of the first medical school, Johns Hopkins, are also
Arjan Singh Kohli CTA-8A Date: May 5th 2014 References: Richard Knox. Oct 23, 2013. “Haitian Cholera Strain Spreads to Mexico.” http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/23/239803890/haitian-cholera-strain-spreads-to-mainland-with-mexico-outbreak The article I have chosen talks about the spread of Cholera and how it is affecting different countries. Cholera is an infectious and bacterial disease of the small intestine, which is contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea. It can often prove to be fatal.
In June of 1940 Mengele was drafted into the Army, and he volunteered for medical service. Within the same year Mengele began working in the Race and Settlement main office as a medical
HEALTH IN THE 1900s – HUMAN HEALTH AND PHYSIOLOGY By Danielle French A10 LAWS Laws such as the 1848 Public Health Act, requiring local government to provide suitable sewerage, etc. Between 1866 and 1875 further acts added the requirement to demolish or renovate the worst slum areas and perform building inspection. In the 1890s and first decade of 1900, local hospitals - which had been fee-paying for many centuries - began operating 'differential payments' - lower fees for those of poor means. This was often spurned on by local philanthropists such as Sir George White of Bristol (and owner of the local tramway company), who as a condition for bailing out the Bristol Royal Infirmary from the debts racked up by corrupt board members,
ProQuest. ***INSERT Library name or system, City, State***. 21 Oct. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/ This article is reviewing the possibility of an avian flu pandemic in the United States, and the response complications for the fire service in any state or city. Dr. McEvoy also points to past responses from around the world including the SARS outbreak. This article also points to prevention and readiness as essentials to both prevent, and to treat any pandemic.
Clinical psychology is defined as “the study of individuals, by observation or experimentation, with the intention of promoting change” (Compas & Gotlib, 2001). While the field of clinical psychology continued to expand, psychiatrists remained working with patients noted to have severe mental illnesses. During World War I, the two intelligence tests Army Alpha (verbal skills) and Army Beta (nonverbal skills) were introduced, making assessment the key focus of clinical psychology (Compas & Gotlib, 2001). The America Association of Clinical Psychology was established in 1917; following the creation of The American Association of Applied Psychology (APA) in 1930. The APA
As the soldiers came home from the war, it was believed that they brought the virus back with them. The polio virus was thought to begin in France. It started in Brooklyn, New York because of the overcrowded and dirty immigration neighborhood. There were 9,000cases just in New York. The Spanish influenza had started in Spain and worked up its way into