A Brief History of Western Medicine

Today we live in a world of peer-reviewed study, high grade medicine and trained healthcare professionals
However, things used to be very different. In this video I give a brief rundown of some of the most important events in medical history from Hippocrates through to the 1800s

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
0:52 The beginning of Western Medicine
02:52 Faulty Foundation
04:45 Dark Times
05:55 Faint Light
07:23 Rectifying Past Mistakes
09:16 The True Origin of Disease
11:14 An Unsolved Dilemma
11:35 Conclusion

Wound man:
https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_Man
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/...

Sources:
Bloodletting
https://bit.ly/3JRXAPp

Middle age medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Greek-to-middle-age medicine
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/med...

Ethics of medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Hippocrates
https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
https://www.livescience.com/62515-hip...

Galen
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen

William Harvey
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Vesalius
https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/histori...

Germ theory of disease
https://www.britannica.com/science/ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_th...

Snake Oilers & Quacks
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nfca/proj...
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distil...

Antibiotic resistant bacteria
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...


Images (Not all included):
Hippocrates
-Wellcome Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Hippocrates. Line engraving, 1584
-Wellcome Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Humorism
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3Pp539Q

Galen. Line engraving
-Wellcome Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Galen, Opera omnia, dissection of a pig
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3SH6aEV

Galen's "Physiological system"
-Wellcome Collection
https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-...

Bloodletting, 16th Century
-Wellcome Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Bush leech found on the Central Coast, north of Sydney
-Jacopo Werther
https://bit.ly/3plACqo

Herbal with 204 illustrations in colour of medicinal plants
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3QlX4ff

Mandragora (Mandrake) plant from 'De historia...'
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3SLd2Ry

Practica Rogerii, medieval medicine
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3pjXPcN

Roger II of Sicily
-Nero Reising
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Woodcut illustration of Constance of Sicily, her husband HRE Henry VI and her son HRE Frederick II - Penn Provenance Project
-kladcat
https://bit.ly/3dmpTJL

Portrait of Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564), Flemish anatomist
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3SKgwnt

Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131-201 (MS.290)
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3bUpbDd

Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131-201 (MS.290)
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3Qki7yt

Fourth muscle man, by Vesalius
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3JPTaIQ

Portrait of William Harvey (1578 - 1657), surgeon
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3w0g7mS

Robert Koch (6909161361)
-ZEISS Microscopy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Louis Pasteur [1822 - 1895], microbiologist and chemist
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3QGHdrf

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912) surgeon
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3BZbc9O

Germ Theory of Putrefaction
-Wellcome Images
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Cardiac surgical procedure at Gemelli Hospital in Rome
-Pfree2014
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

A street during the plague in London with a death cart and m
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3C35rb3

Nine images of the plague in London, 17th century
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3dmqiMh

A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3pg5kRZ

A quack doctor treating her patient's chilblains. Engraving
-Wellcome Images
https://bit.ly/3bTyDGW

Snake oil or Memory Elixer anyone
-Wesley Fryer
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

These Images are all licenced under Creative Commons.
Some have been cropped and/or stretched, but you can view the originals by clicking on the URLs