Medicine Fighting Disease
The Medicine pages contain the information for the Exam covering the Medieval to the Modern period.
Prehistoric Medicine | LINK | Ancient Egypt | LINK | Ancient Greece | LINK | A set of Pastmatters’ productions featuring cheesy soundtracks to explore Prehistory, Pyramids and Pharoahs, also Hippocrates, Asklepius and Greek medicine.
Galen and Hippocrates | LINK | GCSE History – Medicine Through Time – Hippocrates and Galen
Medieval Medicine
Role of the Church | LINK | Video by Pastmatters on the role of the Church helped ad hindering medicine.
Medieval medicine | LINK | A game to review your knowledge of the Middle Ages
Black Death Causes and Cures | LINK | A video about what people believed caused the Black Death and the cures that were used to save them. In Medieval England, the Black Death was to kill 1.5 million people out of an estimated total of 4 million people between 1348 and 1350.
The devastating Black Death | LINK | A video about the Bubonic Plague. In Medieval England, the Black Death was to kill 1.5 million people out of an estimated total of 4 million people between 1348 and 1350.
Renaissance Medicine
The Renaissance | LINK | A Pastmatters production featuring cheesy soundtrack to explore the advances of the early modern period.
Renaissance Anatomy and Surgery | LINK | A game to test you!
Pare and Surgery | LINK | Revision for Medicine through Time GCSE. Blood and Guts. A clip on Vesalius from the amazing Blood and Guts series. Great for revision for SHP Medicine through Time.
Edward Jenner and Vaccination | LINK | A video about Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination that is studied in the ‘Medicine through time’ history GCSE.
Modern Medicine
Fighting Disease | LINK | A Pastmatters video focussing on defeating modern diseases.
Infectious diseases | LINK | A quiz to test your understanding.
Medicine 1750-1900 Revision | LINK | Revision video for Medicine Through Time GCSE
19th C Medical Revolution | LINK | GCSE History of Medicine Revision video about the advances of the 19th c.
Nurses Through Time | LINK | This film looks at the changes in twentieth century Nursing, and compares the similarities and differences over time.
20th C Summary of Medicine | LINK | Summary for GCSE pupils of the main issues in 20c medicine
20th C Drugs Revolution | LINK | Medicine Through Time GCSE Revision
BBC ON This Day Discovery of DNA | LINK |
The Human Genome | LINK |
Mapping the Genome| LINK |
Ten Years of the Human Genome | LINK |