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A short Youtube video for each bullet point of the spec for iGCSE Edexcel (B2) Changes in medicine, 1848-1948.

Link to unit of work (21 lessons)

Included is:

• Worksheet with an A3 worksheet (links included).
• included on the worksheet is directions to when the topic has been examined.
• a Powerpoint which can be used to test if the students have watched the video for part 1 only.

The videos could be set for prework, homework or to revise.

1.1 Barriers to progress, especially the lack of understanding of causes of disease

1.2 Florence Nightingale and changes in nursing and hospitals at Scutari

1.3 Dangers in surgery: pain, infection and bleeding

1.4 the impact of Simpson and chloroform

1.5 Problems and improvements in public health, including the work of Chadwick

1.6 the effects of the Public Health Act (1848)

1.7 the cholera threat and the work of Snow

2.1 Pasteur, the development of the germ theory and its effects

2.2 Improvements in surgery: Lister and the impact of antiseptics

2.3 Government action on public health: the significance of Public Health Act (1875)

2.4 Nightingale and continuing improvements in hospitals and nursing

2.5 Elizabeth Garrett and the progress of women in medicine

3.1 The fight against germs, including the work of Koch and bacteriology

3.2 aseptic surgery

3.3 the impact of the Public Health Act (1875) for improving public health

3.4 science
and medicine: blood transfusions

3.4 magic bullets and the
work of Ehrlich,

3.5 radioactivity and the impact of Marie Curie.

4.1 The impact on public health of the measures (1906–11) of the Liberal Governments

4.2 The importance of the First World War for the role of women in medicine

4.3 improvements in medical treatment,

4.4 surgery, x-rays,


4.5 blood transfusion

4.6 fighting infection

5.1 The development of penicillin and the roles of Fleming, Florey and Chain
a.
b.
5.2a developments in surgery

5.2bskin grafts

5.2c blood transfusion

5.2d role of women in medicine

The iGCSE Edexcel (B2) Changes in medicine, 1848-1948