Medicine+in+The+Industrial+Revolution

​ 1.My topic is the medicine of the Industrial Revolution

2. What I already know: Who?- Doctors and people with different diseases. What?- Different medicinal techniques during the Industrial Revolution. Where?- All across the U.S. and the world. When?- From the 1880's to 1910. Why?- Medicine had not been developed to the point of today. How?- Not enough knowledge of what doctors could have used. Not sure?

3. What I want to know( research qustions) Who?- Who was affected by the new developments in medicine? What?- What was discovered? Where?- Where did these discoveries take place? When?- When did the new medincines begin to take affect? Why?- Why did so many peole die from curable diseases? How?- How were these new medicines created? How did this impact the Industrial Revolution, or how did the Industrial Revolution affect this?- The Industrial Revolution impacted the medicine by allowing more of it to be produced.

4.My research strategy: Who?- Teachers and authors of books. What?- Websites, published papers. textbooks and encyclopedias. When?- During class, our at home. Where?- At home, the computer lab, or the library. How?- by researching through books online and databases.

Key words for searching: Medicine, "nineteenth century medicine", "medicine in the industrial revolution"

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New types of medicine influenced the Industrial Revolution by keeping people healthy and allowing them to live for a longer amount of time//.//Many advancements in the medicinal fields allowed for people to live more fulfilled lives. Not only were people healthier in the nineteenth century but the doctors that performed surgeries were able to be recognized for their succesful adventures. One of these scientests and doctors was Louis Pasteur.

One of Louis Pastuer's first major discoveries was the fact that germs can cause disease. "In each case Pasteur won the day, and in the end emerged a recognition that bacteria can cause disease." (Spangenberger) This caused people to become more aware of germs and their impact. Because of this, more people recognized the need to be clean to prevent disease. Innoculation to prevent certain diseases became another one of Pastuer's main focus. "In the 1880s Pasteur's team of French scientests dicscovered how to innoculate against diseases such as tuberculosis and diphtheria by injecting a weakened form of a disease to infect the body and build up its defenses." (Clare) Innoculating people allowed for an extreme advance in limiting diseases. This decreased the number of disease related deaths and is a technique we still use today.

Many new types of techniques for doctors also came into effect during the Industrial Revolution. To make one of a doctors most important tools, a young french physician used a rolled up piece of paper to listen to his patients heart. ("Medicine,History of.")The stethescope has allowed for doctors to more effectively address the needs of people with heart defects or to check how effectively their heart is working. "Since technology was beginning to grow, so did the number of weapons doctors had to overcome diseases." ("Life During the Industrial Revolution.") New advances made it easier for people to survive curable diseases."In 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Ragntgen discovered a new kind of radiation that could penetrate low-density objects, such as wood or rubber, but not metal or bone. X rays soon became an important diagnostic tool. However, it was several years before scientists realized that exposure to large doses of radiation could be dangerous and that these harmful effects could be harnessed to treat certain skin diseases and cancer."("Medicine,History of.") These x-rays allowed people to be diagnosed more easily. "Anesthetics- laughing gas (1800), ether (1842), and chloroform (1847)- and antiseptics improved patients' chance of surviving surgery." (Clare) Because of these new medicinal techniques, people could live longer, healthier lives. When a person died, doctors began to perform intense autopsys that allowed the cause of death to be more easily determined.("Medicine,History of.") Autopsys created awareness of what would kill people and allowed doctors to make discoveries that keep people healthy today. These autopsys let people become in touch with the needs to keep themselves and their families healthy.

Part of what caused all these diseases is what people were living in after coming home from surgery. Living in dirty homes and residences made health a factor that was a constant nuisance.("Life During the Industrial Revolution.") Germ infested houses allowed germs to cause disease that can now be prevented with the swipe of a windex cloth. After germs became more of an issue, people began to worry and pay attention to germs. "Then an American surgeon named William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) took the antiseptic concept one step further. Why not put a shield between the germs carried by physicians and their nurses? So in 1890 Halsted became the first surgeon of major stature to usew rubber gloves." (Spangenberger) Rubber gloves began to cut down on the number of infections in newly completed surgeries.Before this, post surgery infections were very common. "He began using an antiseptic solution known as carbolic acid (phenol) to clean instruments in 1867."(Spangenberger) Sterilizing surgical instruments allowed Joseph LIster to have a clean operating room and had a higher survival rate.

Overall, medicine took major leaps and bounds all the way throughout the Industrial Revolution.New medicine allowed for people to stay healthier and now we still use certain techniques like x-rays and learned from mistakes that were made all the time in the Revolution like to much exposure to radiation. Between Louis Pasteur recognizing that germs can cause disease and using rubber gloves during surgery, people took giant steps towards becoming a healthier, cleaner, and wise world. code Clare, John D. //Industrial Revolution//. San Diego: Gulliver Books, 1994. Print. code code "Life During the Industrial Revolution." //Industrial Revolution//. Oracle Education Foundation, 2010. code code Web. 29 Mar. 2010. . code code "medicine." //Encyclopaedia Britannica Online//. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2010. Web. 26 Mar. 2010. code code . code code "Medicine,History of." //Marshall Cavendish Science Reference Center//. Marshall Cavendish, n.d. Web. 29 code code Mar. 2010. . code code Spangenberger, Ray. //The History of Science in the Nineteenth Century//. New York: Facts on File,inc., code code 1994. Print. code