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From Patrick Kelly’s outstanding History of Medicine series. This episode gives a very rich account of Miasma Theory, and how it evolved into Contagion Theory. A comprehensive and entertaining account. Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource.

The film covers: Hippocrates and the four humours, Vitruvius’ De Architectura. Traditional Chinese, and Ayurvedic medicine. The beginnings of Contagion Theory. Susruta; Galen’s semina; Scholasticus. The Black Death in medieval Europe; Jaume d’Agramont and pestilence. Giovani Boaccacio, The Islamic Golden Age - Ibn Khatimah. Black Death in the 1600s. Girolomo Fracastoro and the “French Disease” - “Syphilis Sive de Morbo Gallico”. Fomes and fomite transmission. The arrival of microscopes: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke: animalcules, Micrographia; Athanasius Kircherplague. Plenic’s Opera Medico-Physica. Francesco Redi’s Experiments on the Generation of Insects. Zymotic theory. Cholera in London: William Farr and John Snow.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s Patrick Kelly channel for “Miasma Theory, Explained"

15 questions for the 21min film. Differentiated: both versions look similar, but “B” version has **subtle clues. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated brainrot. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Link to film on all sheets.