This is Part 3 of "Character Building Dramas:Pasteur 2". Enjoy!!!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Character Building Dramas:Pasteur 2:Part 2
This is Part 2 of "Character Building Dramas:Pasteur 2". Enjoy!!!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Character Building Dramas:Pasteur 2:Part 1
This is the first part of "Character Building Dramas:Pasteur 2". Enjoy!!!
Chracter Building Dramas:Pasteur 1:Part 5
The Final Part of "Chracter Building Dramas:Pasteur 1. Enjoy!!!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Chracter Building Dramas:Pasteur 1:Part 3
This is the thrid part of Chracter Building Dramas:Pasteur 1:Part 3. Enjoy!!!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Character Building Dramas:Pasteur 1:Part 1
This is a video-drama about the great scientist, Louis Pasteur. Enjoy!!!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Two scientists that helped invent vaccines:Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur(1882-1895)
How does a vaccine work? This remained a mystery until the middle of the 18th century. Then, scientists Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch discovered that infectious diseases were passed on by microbes such as bacteria and viruses. So, they began a proper scientific study of infectious diseases. Pasteur developed a vaccine against rabies and antrax, as well as a procedure called pasteurization, named after him. This is still used today to preserve different kinds of foods, especially milk.
Robert Koch
The German doctor Robert Koch(1843-1910) identified the bacteria which cause tuberculosis, a dangerous disease which mainly attacks the respiratory(breathing) system. Koch also discovered tuberculin, a substance which is extracted from bacteria and which helps in the diagonosis of this disease, even when there are no outward signs or symptoms present.
How does a vaccine work? This remained a mystery until the middle of the 18th century. Then, scientists Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch discovered that infectious diseases were passed on by microbes such as bacteria and viruses. So, they began a proper scientific study of infectious diseases. Pasteur developed a vaccine against rabies and antrax, as well as a procedure called pasteurization, named after him. This is still used today to preserve different kinds of foods, especially milk.
Robert Koch
The German doctor Robert Koch(1843-1910) identified the bacteria which cause tuberculosis, a dangerous disease which mainly attacks the respiratory(breathing) system. Koch also discovered tuberculin, a substance which is extracted from bacteria and which helps in the diagonosis of this disease, even when there are no outward signs or symptoms present.
Monday, October 5, 2009
The great stages in the battle against infectious diseases
1796-Edward Jenner:vaccine against smallpox
1881-Louis Pasteur:vaccine against rabies
1890-Emil Adolf von Belming and Shibasaburo Kitasato:vaccine against tetanus and diptheria
1922-Leon Calmette and Camille Guerin:vaccine against tuberculosis
1954-Jonas E. Salk:anti-polio vaccine. Three years later(in 1957),another type of vaccine was invented by Albert Bruce Sabin;today we use both types of vaccine.
1960-John F. Enders:anti-measles vaccine
1962-Thomas H. Weller:anti-German Measles vaccine and anti-Whooping Cough vaccine
1991-vaccine against Hepatitus B
1881-Louis Pasteur:vaccine against rabies
1890-Emil Adolf von Belming and Shibasaburo Kitasato:vaccine against tetanus and diptheria
1922-Leon Calmette and Camille Guerin:vaccine against tuberculosis
1954-Jonas E. Salk:anti-polio vaccine. Three years later(in 1957),another type of vaccine was invented by Albert Bruce Sabin;today we use both types of vaccine.
1960-John F. Enders:anti-measles vaccine
1962-Thomas H. Weller:anti-German Measles vaccine and anti-Whooping Cough vaccine
1991-vaccine against Hepatitus B
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Why is it that we do not become ill once we are vaccinated?
Each time we overcome infection, our bodies are left with a special system of defence against the germs which caused our illness. So, if we get the same infection again, our bodies are ready to fight it with the antibodies it has produced. Vaccination is based on this reaction. A human body is injected with a weak form of infection by dead or weak germs, and this is enough to produce the antibodies necassary to fight it
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
To Prevent Diseases:Vaccination
By the 1850s, the diseases smallpox, diptheria, tetanus, tuberculosis and polimyelitis had claimed millions of victims,especially babies and young people. Today, vaccination has dramatically reduced deaths caused by these and many more diseases.
Vaccination is a method which enables the human body to develop the defence necessary to combat the microbes(germs) which cause the infection and stop it developing. The first vaccine was developed in 1796 by the English doctor Edward Jenner. He observed that if cowmen caught bovine smallpox, this made them immune to the type of smallpox which affected humans. Therefore, he took a little of the pus from a spot caused by bovine smallpox and put this on the scratched skin of a small boy, James Phipps. The experiment was a success. The boy got just one spot and then, when he came into contact with smallpox victims, he did not catch the disease. Finally, one of the most dangerous diseases could be beaten.
Nearly two centuries later, in 1980, the WHO(the World Health Organization) declared that smallpox had been almost eradicated throughout the world! Jenner's vaccine had pened up the way to a new era of medicine which enabled the prevention of many fatal diseases and saved millions of lives. Vaccine against smallpox was followed by vaccines against rabies, tetanus, diptheria, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis and, in more recent times, measles, whooping cough and hepatitus B. To have some idea of how efficient vaccines are, it is worth noting that there was a combined total of 55,000 diptheria victims in England and France in 1940, when the vaccine became compulsory. By 1956, the number of cases had been reduced to only 51.
Vaccination is a method which enables the human body to develop the defence necessary to combat the microbes(germs) which cause the infection and stop it developing. The first vaccine was developed in 1796 by the English doctor Edward Jenner. He observed that if cowmen caught bovine smallpox, this made them immune to the type of smallpox which affected humans. Therefore, he took a little of the pus from a spot caused by bovine smallpox and put this on the scratched skin of a small boy, James Phipps. The experiment was a success. The boy got just one spot and then, when he came into contact with smallpox victims, he did not catch the disease. Finally, one of the most dangerous diseases could be beaten.
Nearly two centuries later, in 1980, the WHO(the World Health Organization) declared that smallpox had been almost eradicated throughout the world! Jenner's vaccine had pened up the way to a new era of medicine which enabled the prevention of many fatal diseases and saved millions of lives. Vaccine against smallpox was followed by vaccines against rabies, tetanus, diptheria, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis and, in more recent times, measles, whooping cough and hepatitus B. To have some idea of how efficient vaccines are, it is worth noting that there was a combined total of 55,000 diptheria victims in England and France in 1940, when the vaccine became compulsory. By 1956, the number of cases had been reduced to only 51.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Horrible Histories:Gorgeous Georgians:The 4 Georges "Born To Rule"
In Horrible Histories:Gorgeous Georgians:The 4 Georges "Born To Rule",The 4 Georges sing their family history as a Boy Band. You can find it fullscreen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtYmq5qFVA .Enjoy!!!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Horrible Histories:Historical Hospital:Gorgeous Georgians:Georgian Doctor
In Horrible Histories:Historial Hospital:Gorgeous Georgians:Georgian Doctor trys to help a modern patient. It can also be found fullscreen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHXdhtH7Nc4 . Enjoy!!!
Old Cures 4
A horseshoe hung above a door is supposed to ward off evil sprits. A story tells how Saint Dunstan, when working as a blacksmith, was visited by a very strange-looking customer. He recognised him as the Devil and, when asked to place a horseshoe on the Devil's foot he hammered it so hard that the Devil promised that he would never enter a house with a horseshoe above the door if only the Saint would release him from his pain.
Unscrupulous brewers in Victorian Britain used to add sulphate of iron to their brew to give it added head in order to hide the fact that the beer had been wartered down.
It was once common for sufferers from rheumatism to carry around potatoes untill they were rotten in the belief that this would cure their affliction.
Many people once believed that storking the tail of a black cat was a good cure for a stye in the eye.
Among patent medicines that could be bought in 18th-century England were:-Tea forProlonging Life, Elixer of Life, Botanical Syrup and Nervous Cordial.
A Brazilian jungle shrub contains a substance that causes vomiting-useful in cases of poisoning.
It is believed that a snakeroot plant from the Indian forest can help overcome insomnia.
During the Middle Ages when meat was used in cooking was often rancid, the meats of the rich were often perfumed with musk, violets, roses, primroses and hawthorn flowers.
A poultice of boiled turnips was once used to cure chilblains.
A popular cosmetic used in the 18th-century was made of white lead. Unfortunately it tended to cause fatal lead-poisoning in its users.
An 18th-century charlatan sold a lotion that was guaranteed to cure stammering if speard on the tongue.
Unscrupulous brewers in Victorian Britain used to add sulphate of iron to their brew to give it added head in order to hide the fact that the beer had been wartered down.
It was once common for sufferers from rheumatism to carry around potatoes untill they were rotten in the belief that this would cure their affliction.
Many people once believed that storking the tail of a black cat was a good cure for a stye in the eye.
Among patent medicines that could be bought in 18th-century England were:-Tea forProlonging Life, Elixer of Life, Botanical Syrup and Nervous Cordial.
A Brazilian jungle shrub contains a substance that causes vomiting-useful in cases of poisoning.
It is believed that a snakeroot plant from the Indian forest can help overcome insomnia.
During the Middle Ages when meat was used in cooking was often rancid, the meats of the rich were often perfumed with musk, violets, roses, primroses and hawthorn flowers.
A poultice of boiled turnips was once used to cure chilblains.
A popular cosmetic used in the 18th-century was made of white lead. Unfortunately it tended to cause fatal lead-poisoning in its users.
An 18th-century charlatan sold a lotion that was guaranteed to cure stammering if speard on the tongue.
Old Cures 3
During the Middle Ages rings made out of coffin nails and blessed by the monarch were thought to be very effective in warding off illness. Mary The 1st was the last English monarch to perform this rite.
A 19th-century cure for smallpox involved opening the window in the patient's bedroom,encouraging gnats to enter and then shooing the insects out again to carry the disease away with them.
In medival times,a cure for toothache was to first make the gum bleed by scratching it with a splinter of wood from a tree struck by lightning and then to hammer the splinter into the tree to leave the pain behind.
Dried and powdered mole added to gin and taken 9 consecutive mornings used to be regarded as a cure for fever.
The Anglo-Saxons believed lettuce to be a cure for insomina.
An old Cornish remedy for chilblains involved standing on one's head for 15 minutes.
The swallowing of fat,live slugs was once thought of as a cure for consumption.
Every bullring in Spainhas a monument of Sir Alxander Fleming,whose discovery of penicillin has saved countless bullfighters from dying of gangrene after being gored.
A 19th-century cure for smallpox involved opening the window in the patient's bedroom,encouraging gnats to enter and then shooing the insects out again to carry the disease away with them.
In medival times,a cure for toothache was to first make the gum bleed by scratching it with a splinter of wood from a tree struck by lightning and then to hammer the splinter into the tree to leave the pain behind.
Dried and powdered mole added to gin and taken 9 consecutive mornings used to be regarded as a cure for fever.
The Anglo-Saxons believed lettuce to be a cure for insomina.
An old Cornish remedy for chilblains involved standing on one's head for 15 minutes.
The swallowing of fat,live slugs was once thought of as a cure for consumption.
Every bullring in Spainhas a monument of Sir Alxander Fleming,whose discovery of penicillin has saved countless bullfighters from dying of gangrene after being gored.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Cure For Lightning
It was once widely believed throughout Britain that a rapid recovery after being struck by lightning was obtained by burying the victimup to the neck in earth.
You Wouldn't Want To Be A Egyptain Mummy
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Horrible Histories:Awful Egyptains:The Mummy Song
This song is about how Ancient Egyptain Mummys were made. You can also find it fullscreen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMs_IGKxMu0 . Enjoy!!!
About Horrible Histories:Awful Egyptains:Shouty Man:Ancient Egyptain Mummy(Below)
I really like Horrible Histories! This is a little clip about Ancient Egyptain Mummys. Some of it is how mummys were used as medicine in the 1800s. You can also find it fullscreen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNc5ijaHYs . Enjoy!!!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Old Cures 2
The powdered flesh of a mummy was of soveregin power in physic,especially for contusions,where it prevented the blood from settling and coagulating at the injured part.
Aspen leaves are considered good against ague.
Gin was originally invented as a medicine in the Netherlands over four hundred years ago.It was used for the treatment of kidney disorders, gout, rheumatism, and bladder complaints andwas brought over to England by soldiers. It proven popular and soon gin-shops opened all over the country showing outside the sign "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence".
In Ancient Egypt it was believed that toothache was caused by a demon that took the form of a worm and invaded teethy.
Aspen leaves are considered good against ague.
Gin was originally invented as a medicine in the Netherlands over four hundred years ago.It was used for the treatment of kidney disorders, gout, rheumatism, and bladder complaints andwas brought over to England by soldiers. It proven popular and soon gin-shops opened all over the country showing outside the sign "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence".
In Ancient Egypt it was believed that toothache was caused by a demon that took the form of a worm and invaded teethy.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Odd Cures
Here are a list of ancient cures which,frankly,should make your flesh creep even if they do not effect a cure. The ancients must have been odd people,
Snails boiled in barley water are a sovereign cure for a ordinary cough.
Whooping cough can be curede by anyone riding on a piebald horse.
The heart-shaped leaves of the ordinary wood sorrel were remedial in cardiac cases.
A little moss growing on a skull,dried well and used as snuff was specific for headache.
Anyone suffering the agonies of toothache was instantly relieved by merely smelling a dead man's tooth.
During the middle ages a cure for chilblains involved the patient sitting with his legs tightly crossed and thrashing himself with holly.
Warts:put three dropsof the blood of a wart into an elder leaf and bury it in the earth and the warts will vanish away.
The flowers of the Lily of the Valley being closely stopped up in glass,put into an anthill and taken away a month later,ye shall find liquor in the glass which,being outwardly applied,helped gout.
Turmeric,on account of its deep yellow colour,was of great reputation in the treatment of jaundice.
Driving a iron nail into an oak tree - a sure cure for toothache.
Chilblains should be rubbed well with a mouse skin or the sufferer should roll his feet and ankles in hot embers.
Snails boiled in barley water are a sovereign cure for a ordinary cough.
Whooping cough can be curede by anyone riding on a piebald horse.
The heart-shaped leaves of the ordinary wood sorrel were remedial in cardiac cases.
A little moss growing on a skull,dried well and used as snuff was specific for headache.
Anyone suffering the agonies of toothache was instantly relieved by merely smelling a dead man's tooth.
During the middle ages a cure for chilblains involved the patient sitting with his legs tightly crossed and thrashing himself with holly.
Warts:put three dropsof the blood of a wart into an elder leaf and bury it in the earth and the warts will vanish away.
The flowers of the Lily of the Valley being closely stopped up in glass,put into an anthill and taken away a month later,ye shall find liquor in the glass which,being outwardly applied,helped gout.
Turmeric,on account of its deep yellow colour,was of great reputation in the treatment of jaundice.
Driving a iron nail into an oak tree - a sure cure for toothache.
Chilblains should be rubbed well with a mouse skin or the sufferer should roll his feet and ankles in hot embers.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Old Cures
A mixture of water lily roots and tar was supposed to be a cure for baldness.
Old remides for tuberculosis included eating a mixture of snails dissolved in salt and inhaling the fumes of cow dung.
An old but smelly cure for sprained wrists involved soaking a red rag in a mixture of urine and salt and tying it around the wrist.
Inserting a live louse into a tooth cavity was once regarded as a cure for toothache.
Mole blood was once used as a cure for warts.
An old Yorkshire cure for whooping-cough called for chopped hairs from a donkey's back to be eaten on bread and butter.
Many country men in England used to wear the skin of an adder around their hats as a way of avoiding headaches.
It was once widely believed in England that blackheads,boils,eczema,rheumatism and whooping-cough could be cured by crawling through a bramble-bush.
Old remides for tuberculosis included eating a mixture of snails dissolved in salt and inhaling the fumes of cow dung.
An old but smelly cure for sprained wrists involved soaking a red rag in a mixture of urine and salt and tying it around the wrist.
Inserting a live louse into a tooth cavity was once regarded as a cure for toothache.
Mole blood was once used as a cure for warts.
An old Yorkshire cure for whooping-cough called for chopped hairs from a donkey's back to be eaten on bread and butter.
Many country men in England used to wear the skin of an adder around their hats as a way of avoiding headaches.
It was once widely believed in England that blackheads,boils,eczema,rheumatism and whooping-cough could be cured by crawling through a bramble-bush.
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