Continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness.
The influence in Britain of Pasteur’s Germ Theory and Koch’s work on microbes.
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The extent of change in care and treatment: improvements in hospital care and the influence of Nightingale.
The impact of anaesthetics and antiseptics on surgery.
New approaches to prevention: the development and use of vaccinations and the Public Health Act 1875.
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Key individual: Jenner and the development of vaccination.
Fighting Cholera in London, 1854; attempts to prevent its spread; the significance of Snow and the Broad Street pump
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