Early medicine and magic - trepanning, witchdoctors, medicine men, surgery, mummification, acupuncture; the Greeks - the four humours, blood-letting, purging, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Epidaurus, Asclepius; the Romans - Galen, cupping, sanitation, hospitals, public baths; Islamic medicine - Rhazes, cataract operations, smallpox, pharmacies; the Dark Ages - religion, Cosmas and Damian, pilgrimages, herbal remedies; plague - Black Death, medical schools, lepers, uroscopy, trepanning; the Renaissance - thermometers, Vesalius, Padua's anatomy theatre, Mary Rose; 16th & 17th centuries - Leyden, blood circulation, Paracelsus, microscopes; the 18th century - medical students in Edinburgh, smallpox, body-snatchers, vaccination; the scientists - ether anaesthetic, stethoscope, leeches, blood transfusion, Pasteur, disinfectants, x-rays; mental health - evil spirits, asylums, whirling eages, bedlam, Freud, counselling, drugs, community care; dentistry - Etruscan false teeth, pulling teeth, anaesthetics, gum disease, ultrasound, fluoride implants; medicine and war - flying ambulances, naval surgeons, Florence Nightingale, antibiotics, trench hospitals; drugs - magic bullets, penicillin, insulin, plastic surgery, vitamins, American drugstores; hospital care - polio, British National Health Service, nursing care; pregnancy and childbirth - midwives, natural childbirth, infant death, Caesarian section, Semmelweiss, breastfeeding; alternative medicine - herbalism, homeopathy, reflexology, acupuncture, Lourdes; the 1950s and 1960s - Crick and Watson, ultrasound, kidney dialysis, mammography, heart transplant; 1970 to 1979 - Gambia, malnutrition, amniocentesis, in vitro fertilization; surgery - imaging techniques, CT scanning, cosmetic surgery, genetic research; medicine today - cancer, heart disease, health education, overpopulations, AIDS, smoking, drinking; the future - greenhouse effect, DNA technology, vaccines, cryogenics; timeline.
