Maya medicine
This video covers: Medicine, doctors, midwives and healers; also a look at the illnesses and treatments they used.
Medicine & health
Disease and epidemic
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A description of the way Dr John Snow removed the handle from the water pump to prove cholera was spread by contaminated water
The great stink of 1858
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A description of the stench that came from the River Thames which became known as the Great Stink and almost caused Parliament to close
Roman baths
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A description of a Roman bathhouse and the various rooms and facilities available such as the palaestra or gym and the caldarium and frigidarium.
Trench foot
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A gruesome description of trench foot and frostbite together with the cause and treatment available to soldiers
Gangrene dressing
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A description of a nurse's first experience of dressing a gangrene wound and the limited pain relief available
Roses of No Man's Land
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A recital of a popular WW1 song which explains why nurses became known as the "Roses of No Man's Land"
Shell shock
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A description of shell shock and the effect it has on soldiers. It also highlights the treatments for shell shock and the way in which officers were treated differently to the ordinary soldier
Life in the trenches - Part 5
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A description of how injured soldiers were taken care of both on the battlefield and in the trenches by their comrades and the medical officer