History of Medicine and the Western Front Edexcel Paper 1

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Front The Western Front - Thomas Splint
Back - At the start of the war 80% of men who suffered a leg injury would die, this happened via blood loss, shock and gangrene after bone pierced skin - It strapped the broken leg before the casualty was moved (reducing damage done to the leg in travel)-Survival rate from this injury increased from 20% to 82%
Front Renaissance - The Plague Prevention
Back - Quarantining - Getting Syphilis - Cleanliness- Posies - Smoking tobacco- Burning barrels of tar- Killing cats and dogs - Quack doctors sold fake medicine
Front Industrial - Robert Koch
Back - German doctor/physicist- identified the different mocribess that caused different diseases(confirmed Germ Theory)- Discovered anthrax microbe in 1876- cholera microbe in 1883- By 1900s, 21 different bacteria were identified- tuberculosis in 1882- copied by other scientist
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