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Home | History | History of Medicine

Medicine in early modern England

1: Into the Brain | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

1: Into the Brain | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

History | BBC Four | 2008 | 58'56''

Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery begins with the area of the body w...

2: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

2: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Early Modern Britain | BBC Two | 2013 | 59'03''

Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at th...

2: Bleeding Hearts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

2: Bleeding Hearts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

History | BBC Four | 2008 | 59'02''

The series about the history of surgery charts the development of heart surgery. Michael Mosley witnesses a breatht...

4: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

4: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

History | BBC Four | 2008 | 59'00''

Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 40...

4: Medicine and Long Term Change | History File

4: Medicine and Long Term Change | History File

History | BBC Two | 1989 | 18'48''

Paul Viragh presents programme on medicine and long-term change - Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood is usually ...

5: Bloody Beginnings | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

5: Bloody Beginnings | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

History | BBC Four | 2008 | 59'00''

Michael Mosley looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itsel...

5: The Triumph of Art | Civilisations

5: The Triumph of Art | Civilisations

History | BBC Two | 2018 | 59'06''

Simon Schama examines how traditions developed in the years following the Renaissances.

Measuring levels of oxygen in the blood | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Measuring levels of oxygen in the blood | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

History | BBC Four | 2008 | 3'30''

Using a pulse oximeter to show what happens with the levels of oxygen in the blood when you st...

The Great Plague

The Great Plague

Early Modern Britain | Channel 4 | 2003 | 1'30'25''

The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 Londoners - one in three of the people living in the city. While kept diaries have provided terrifying testaments to...

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