Moments in Medicine

A suite of free resources to support the teaching of medicine and public health topics in GCSE History. Each resource focuses on a key primary source from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford. Contextual information enables students to explore the historical significance of each source. Questions provide an opportunity for students to explain the importance of the document to the development of public health.
These resources were produced and are made available through the generosity of the Helen Hamlyn Trust.

List of resources

• The Canon of Medicine (Ibn Sina)
• Medieval Herbarium from the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
• Medieval Uroscopy
• Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
• Micrographia (Robert Hooke)
• The Pisse Prophet (Thomas Brian)
• Communication of Cholera (John Snow)
• The Antiseptic System (Joseph Lister)
• The New National Health Service (Ministry of Health, 1948)

New for 2021-22

• A Letter to recommend in and out patients (St George’s Hospital, 1848)
• Notice of the Requirement of Vaccination (1897)
• Polio vaccination poster (Ministry of Health, 1958)**