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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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