Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine Through Time
History
Questions and key dates from Edexcel GCSE History course Medicine Through Time
Sample Data
| Front | 1543 |
| Back | Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body is published |
| Front | What did John Snow do? |
| Back | During the 1854 cholera outbreak, he removed the handle of the Broad Street pump. Cholera cases dropped. He inspected the well beneath the pump and found it was close to a cracked cesspit.This led him to conclude that cholera was passed through dirty water, not the air.
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| Front | What do CT and MRI scans produce? |
| Back | - Detailed images of internal organs, which can diagnose internal damage and tumours |