William Harvey's discovery
This video covers: How William Harvey discovered circulation; how blood flowed around the body.
This video covers: How William Harvey discovered circulation; how blood flowed around the body.
This video covers: How Louis Pasteur discovered pasteurisation and worked on his germ theory
This video covers: An eye witness account of the Black Death which broke out in 1348, told by a medieval monk
This video covers: A look at people's reaction to the plague and how they dealt with it.
This video covers: An introduction to Ambroise Pare, his early career and his experience of treating wounds with boiling oil.
This video covers: A look at some of the medieval beliefs and ideas that were thought to have caused the plague.
This video covers: Edward Jenner explains what smallpox is, why people feared it so much and how inoculations were sometimes used to protect people.
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This video covers: How when first exploring medicine, Andreas Vesalius stole the body of a hanged criminal so that he could study anatomy.
This video covers: An explanation as to why Vesalius questioned Galen's accuracy and what he discovered when he was dissecting a human jaw.
This video covers: A brief explanation as to how Pasteur proved his germ theory.