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History Medicine through Time Clips

  1. Surgery of the future

    Duration: 04:23

  2. Government attitudes to healthcare

    Duration: 01:04

  3. Why did surgery become important to medicine?

    Duration: 01:56

  4. Challenges to the use of surgery as a cure

    Duration: 03:21

  5. From Medieval to Renaissance medicine

    Duration: 03:34

  6. Attitudes towards WW1 deserters diagnosed with shellshock

    Duration: 03:30

  7. Manchester cholera epidemic of 1832 (pt 1/2)

    Duration: 04:56

  8. Manchester cholera epidemic of 1832 (pt 2/2)

    Duration: 04:48

  9. The effects of shellshock on WW1 soldiers and doctors

    Duration: 03:45

  10. Surgery in the 19th century

    Duration: 03:12

  11. The rise of hospitals and the NHS in 1948

    Duration: 04:46

  12. The survival of Galen's ideas about medicine

    Duration: 02:03

  13. Government and public health from 1866 to 1875

    Duration: 01:59

  14. The impact of war on medical care in the 1900s

    Duration: 03:10

  15. Government and public health from 1875 to 1906

    Duration: 04:35

  16. Government and public health from 1830 to 1850

    Duration: 04:30

  17. Ancient Greek medicine, 800BC to 400BC

    Duration: 04:33

  18. The work of Andreas Vesalius

    Duration: 04:36

  19. Hippocratic medicine in Ancient Greece

    Duration: 03:13

  20. When did science change ordinary medicine? (pt 1/2)

    Duration: 03:30

  21. Vesalius and the use of dissection in medicine

    Duration: 02:55

  22. Christianity and the re-emergence of Galen's ideas

    Duration: 04:11

  23. Did the First World War improve surgery?

    Duration: 04:30

  24. The impact of the First World War on medicine

    Duration: 02:55

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