Moments in Medicine learning resource

A drawing of a bug in microscopic detail by Robert Hooke

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Moments in Medicine learning resources

Key Stage 4

Subjects: History

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The Canon of Medicine

Ibn Sina’s hugely influential overview of eleventh century medical knowledge and practice.

An illustration of a plant with red berries from the Herbarium

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Medieval Herbarium

A richly illustrated medieval herbal from the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds.

Uroscopy diagram showing shapes in a circle

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Medieval Uroscopy

An illustrated medieval guide to using the patient’s urine to determine imbalances of the humours.

The frontispiece of the Pharmacopoeia Londis

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Pharmacopoeia Londinensis

The 1632 edition of the definitive manual of pharmacy from the Royal College of Physicians.

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Micrographia

Robert Hooke’s ground-breaking work on microscopic observations of the natural world.

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The Pisse Prophet

Thomas Brain’s powerfully worded seventeenth century tirade against quackery.

Map of central London showing cholera cases

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Communication of Cholera

John Snow’s 1849 article identifying contaminated drinking water as the cause of Cholera.

Black and white portrait photograph of Joseph Lister

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The Antiseptic System

Joseph Lister’s presentation of evidence that the use of antiseptic reduces mortality.

Opening of a pamphlet announcing the introduction of the NHS

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The New NHS

1948 pamphlet giving advice about services available from the new National Health Service.

Moments in Medicine learning resource