Medicine Through Time slides
23 slide sets by 12 users
This Medicine Through Time page gathers over 20 community-made slide sets, covering topics from ancient medicine to surgery and public health. They are for school students studying medicine in history and teachers looking for material for lessons at secondary level. Explore the slides and choose a topic to start with.
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- Prehistoric medicine106
- Ancient medicine271
- Medieval medicine63
- Renaissance medicine184
- Plague epidemics18
- Industrial-era medicine40
- Disease, germ theory and vaccination76
- History of surgery112
- History of public health84
- Antibiotics and magic bullets45
- Modern medicine37
- War and medicine10
- Factors in medical progress30
- Key figures in medicine93
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Start with John Snow if you want to study a particular public health problem. It looks at the London cholera outbreak and the link to dirty water. Follow it with Edwin Chadwick, which explores sanitary conditions and possible improvements.
For surgery, 20th Century Surgery includes X-rays and their use in locating bullets and shrapnel in wounded soldiers. Influencing Factors of Surgery considers science, anaesthetics and antiseptics. The slides on Florence Nightingale look at nursing before and after training became established.
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Which slide set is a useful place to start?
John Snow is a starting point for public health. It focuses on a cholera outbreak in London and the role of dirty water. Afterward, Edwin Chadwick offers another view of public health, looking at sanitary conditions and what could be done to improve them.
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Yes. Every slide set listed here is free to open and study without an account. The resources were made by GoConqr users. A free account can save your quiz scores and lets you create your own quizzes, mind maps, flashcards and notes.
Do these slides suit GCSE History students?
The collection is mainly at secondary level and includes resources relevant to GCSE History. Topics include public health, surgery, nursing and medicine in different periods. Check each slide set against the topics you need to study, as individual sets focus on different parts of the unit.