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1250 -1500

Middle Ages medicine 

an overview  (5 mins)

1250- 1500

Barber surgeons  and the use of leeches in Middle Ages medicine

1500-1750

Renaissance Medicine 

Lots of change, lots of continuity, no-one gets any healthier ! (5 mins)

1500-1750

Renaissance medicine

Individuals played a key factor in progress during the 16th and 17th centuries (5 mins)

1750-1900

18th century 

time for change and progress

1750-1900

Public Health in the 19th century (industrial era) was terrible. Individuals like Chadwick and Snow tried to improve this! (5 mins)

1750-1900

Smelly towns! Just how disgusting were they? What did governments try to do ?

1750 - 1900

Edward Jenner and vaccination (the father of immunology and prevention of disease). Uses cowpox matter to immunise patients against the deadly small pox 1796. (12 mins)

1750-1900

Florence Nightingale's work  radically transformed nursing, hospitals and patient care in the 19th century. (12 mins)

1750 - 1900

Discovering germs ! 

The end of miasma and the beginning of microbiology - Pasteur and Koch.(5 mins) Huge impact on medicine including aseptic surgery, cleaner towns, vaccinations..

1750 - 1900

Lister (antiseptics) and Simpson (antibiotics) and their contribution to surgery.(5 mins)

1750 - 1900

The history of anaesthetics 

from ether to chloroform! 

OUCH! (50 mins)

A History of surgery over time . 

Dr Moseley tracks advances in surgery from the Renaissance era to present day. From pain infection and blood loss to today.

Pain pus and poison! 

Dr Moseley examines the problems associated with surgery through the centuries (50 mins)

Medicine through time! How has science improved medicine and health through the ages? (25 mins)

1900 - present day

Overview of this period of great change, when government, war and science make progress happen! (5 mins)

1900-present day

Movie time! 
Breaking the mould looks at how penicillin the antibiotic was first  discovered, to its treatment. (1 hour 20 mins)

1900-present day

Penicillin : How Fleming Florey and Chain were involved in this antibiotic's success.

British Western Front 1914- 1918

why were trenches built? (10 mins)

Effects of gas (5 mins)

British Western Front 1914-1918

How war improved medicine:

identifying PTSD - shell shock

chain of evacuation 

brain surgery  (25 mins)

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Operation ouch looks at the treatments and injuries in the trenches, including trench fever, foot, the Thomas splint and prosthetic legs. (20 mins)

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