https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h en-us 2022-11-17 18:33:25 UTC 2025-10-25 06:25:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f5ff.png 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2388806811  At the beginning of the 19th-century cholera, emanating first from Asian countries, such as India, spread across Europe through sailors traveling from sea port to sea port. By 1831, the cholera epidemic had already struck England. In June of 1832, cholera had made its way to ports in Canada and traveled down from St. Laurence and the Hudson River to lower Manhattan, where it grew into an epidemic. 3,500 people, mostly poor immigrants, died during the course of the plague.

https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/disasters/cholera-1832.html]]> 2022-11-17 18:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2388806811 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2388834007 American dental surgeon who in 1846 gave the first successful public demonstration of ether anesthesia during surgery. He is credited with gaining the medical world’s acceptance of surgical anesthesia. This allowed other surgeons to see that this is effective. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Thomas-Green-Morton]]> 2022-11-17 19:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2388834007 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2388893804 The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, Elizabeth Blackwell championed the participation of women in the medical profession and ultimately opened her own medical college for women. Back then women couldn't work or have an education and this opened opportunities for women 

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/elizabeth-blackwell

]]> 2022-11-17 19:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2388893804 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389376615 British surgeon and medical scientist who was the founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine. While his method, based on the use of antiseptics, is no longer employed, his principle that bacteria must never gain entry into an operation wound remains the basis of surgery to this day. He was made a baronet in 1883 and raised to the peerage in 1897.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Lister-Baron-Lister-of-Lyme-Regis]]> 2022-11-18 04:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389376615 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389384096 Some two years after his arrival in Berlin Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus and also a method of growing it in pure culture. He was still busy with work on tuberculosis when he was sent, in 1883, to Egypt as Leader of the German Cholera Commission, to investigate an outbreak of cholera in that country. he discovered the vibrato that causes cholera and brought back pure cultures of it to Germany. He also studied cholera in India. This study helped people understand and identify the infection 

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1905/koch/biographical/

]]> 2022-11-18 04:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389384096 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389390207 Pasteur’s contributions to science, technology, and medicine are near without precedent. He pioneered the study of molecular asymmetry; discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease; originated the process of pasteurization; saved the beer, wine, and silk industries in France; and developed vaccines against anthrax and rabies. This help cure the diseases

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Pasteur]]> 2022-11-18 04:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389390207 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389393762 Lillian D. Wald helped to bring health care to the residents of New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century. Wald fought for public health care, women’s rights, and children’s rights while running the Henry Street Settlement. . It had 3,000 members in its classes and clubs and 92 nurses making an estimated 200,000 home health calls a year. This help the community and thousands of patient. 

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/lillian-wald

]]> 2022-11-18 04:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389393762 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389400086 Social Darwinism is a loose set of ideologies that emerged in the late 1800s in which Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was used to justify certain political, social, or economic views. They believed that "survival of the fittest was the way to go" for businesses and life. ]]> 2022-11-18 04:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2389400086 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390276326 A physicist who received the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901, for his discovery of X-rays, which heralded the age of modern physics and revolutionized diagnostic medicine.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Rontgen]]> 2022-11-18 17:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390276326 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390285232 The Industrial Revolution was a period of scientific and technological development in the 18th century that transformed largely rural, agrarian societies especially in Europe and North America into industrialized, urban ones. Goods that had once been painstakingly crafted by hand started to be produced in mass quantities by machines in factories, thanks to the introduction of new machines and techniques in textiles, iron making and other industries.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/industrial-revolution.asp#:~:text=The%20American%20Industrial%20Revolution%2C%20sometimes,%2C%20the%20automobile%2C%20and%20airplanes.]]> 2022-11-18 18:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390285232 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390298153 Urbanization refers to the concentration of human populations into discrete areas. This concentration leads to the transformation of land for residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation purposes. It can include densely populated centers, as well as their adjacent periurban or suburban fringes. This hurt cities by not having enough space for them and not enough food so most of the time they would catch diseases

https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/005/]]> 2022-11-18 18:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390298153 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390312741 French physician who invented the stethoscope and perfected the art of auditory examination of the chest cavity.. Using this new instrument, he investigated the sounds made by the heart and lungs and determined that his diagnoses were supported by the observations made during autopsies.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Laennec]]> 2022-11-18 18:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390312741 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390357854 Florence Nightingale was a British nurse, social reformer, and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation. This helped with new patients coming to nice and clean areas so no more diseases would spread even more. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Florence-Nightingale]]> 2022-11-18 19:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390357854 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390363655 American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread reforms in the United States and abroad. She helped the mentally ill patients so they would be treated because nobody really did. ]]> 2022-11-18 19:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390363655 1048358 https://padlet.com/1048358/atqd6582fidrqt1h/wish/2390443011 Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of puerperal (childbed) fever and introduced antisepsis into medical practice. This helps it be identified the fever and help people fight infections and diseases

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