Medicine and Public Health Revision

Below are a list of resources that will support your revision. The past papers are on a separate post below.

Your Easter Revision homework is available here:
Easter Revision Paper

Lesson Presentations
Revision Powerpoint - From the Easter revision session
1350-1750
1750 - 1900
1900 - Present

Medicine Clips:

A great online summary of everything

Medieval Hospitals

Vesalius - A great clip on anatomy

BBC William Harvey and his experiments


Public Health Clips:

Filthy Cities - BBC Documentary

Government and public health 1830-1850

John Snow and the Broad Street pump

Government and public health 1866-1875

Sewer King - Bazalgette - 1 hour

Government and public health 1875-1906

Why do we care about public health?

The National Health Service and Welfare State from Tony Ben


Example answers:

Example answer for a 12 mark question

American West Revision

This section has links to some good revision clips and some useful powerpoints and documents for revision. All past papers can be found on an earlier blog post.

Easter Revision Homework
Easter Revision American West Paper

Early Migrants

Frozen body mountain men

Mountain men montage

Early travels on the plains with the Oglala - BBC

California trail

Hardships on the trail

Problems on the trail

Wagon trail west - family

Miners 1840-1870

The effect on the natives - greedy whites

Gold in the black hills

Gold prospectors challenged by the army

Settling the plains 1860's

Sod houses

BBC Sod busters

Farming problems and solutions

Cowboys and cattle

Chisholm trail - Cattlemen and cowboys

Johnson County War - information sheet

The railroads

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

The last gasp of the native Americans

The way it was before the whites

The Buffalo

Crazy horse biography

Big Horn and Beyond - BBC

Wounded Knee 9mins

Wounded Knee 17mins

Overview to the American West

Overview questions

Gimme Five - revision sheets