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Series recording the development of surgical techniques from the pre-anaesthetic era to today’s open-heart surgery and organ transplantation.
Surveys the state of medical knowledge and treatment in the 17th century.
The history of haemodynamics starting with Rev. Stephen Hales and his early experiments in measuring blood pressure, through to a systems analysis of the probable interactions between the principal factors...
Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a...
Reconstructs Charing Cross Hospital, London, as it was in 1922 and contrasts the methods in use then with present-day practice in the new Charing Cross Hospital. Tries to show what has been gained and lost,...
Uses historical documents, portraits, and sequences specially filmed on location in Padua as well as in England to describe Harvey’s education at Canterbury, Cambridge and Padua, and the influence of his...
A film in the Wellcome’s collection of the papers of Dr Donald Hunter (1898-1977), occupational health expert. Professor F Lancis and Dr R Peñalver of the Research Department of Legal Medicine and...
A film in the Wellcome’s collection of the papers of Sir Robert Macintosh (1897-1989), anaesthetist.
Dan Cruickshank presents a history of medical innovation during the industrial revolution, focusing on James Lind’s treatment of scurvy with oranges and lemons, in the first ever clinical trial; Edward...
A highly informative film entitled How medicines were made, revealing some of the secrets of pharmacy’s history, is on sale. The film shows Peter Homan, retired community pharmacist and one of the...
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