REVISION: "History of Medicine"

Roman public health schemes

Medical help in Roman Britain (Home remedies, Gods and their priests, Trained doctors)

Hippocrates

Galen

Hospitals in the Middle Ages

Believed causes of disease in the Middle Ages

Ways to stay healthy in the Middle Ages

Public health in the Middle Ages

Church’s influence on medicine and health

The Black Death

Andreas Vesalius

William Harvey

The Royal Society

A physician’s training circa 1500 vs A physician’s training in the late 1700s

The effects of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution

Believed causes of disease in the early 1800s

The key breakthroughs in the fight against disease (The development of vaccinations, Germ theory, The identification of bacteria that cause individual diseases, The discovery of DNA)

Antibiotics

Alternative therapies e.g. herbal remedies

The development of penicillin and antibiotic medicines

X-rays

Radiation therapy

Scanning to diagnose early stages of illness

Technology in the home

Florence Nightingale

Changes in the training of doctors

Public health in 1350 vs Public health in the 1600s

The streets, Water supplies, Public toilets, Sewers and waste removal

Edwin Chadwick

William Farr

The impact of cholera

The work of John Snow

The Great

Joseph Bazalgette

Charles Booth

Seebohm Rowntree

Changes the Liberal government of 1906-1914 made

Impact of the World Wars

The Beveridge Report 1942

Opposition to the NHS