- Ancient and Medieval Medicine: Prehistory to 1600[rtoc]
- A shaman to combat disease and death: Prehistoric medicine
- A healer of one disease and no more: Ancient Egyptian medicine
- The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease: Ayurvedic medicine
- We rebuild what fortune has taken away: Plastic surgery
- First, do no harm: Greek medicine
- A body in balance: Traditional Chinese medicine
- Nature itself is the best physician: Herbal medicine
- To diagnose, one must observe and reason: Roman medicine
- Know the causes of sickness and health: Islamic medicine
- Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt: Medieval medical schools and surgery
- The vampire of medicine: Bloodletting and leeches
- Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art: Battlefield medicine
- The art of prescribing lies in nature: Pharmacy
- Teach not from books but from dissections: Anatomy[/rtoc]
- The Scientific Body: 1600-1820[rtoc]
- The blood is driven into a round: Blood circulation
- A disease known is half cured: Nosology
- Hope of a good, speedy deliverance: Midwifery
- The harvest of diseases reaped by workers: Occupational medicine
- The peculiar circumstances of the patient: Case history
- To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible: Hospitals
- Great and unknown virtue in this fruit: Preventing scurvy
- The bark of a tree is very efficacious: Aspirin
- Surgery has become a science: Scientific surgery
- The dangerously wounded must be tended first: Triage
- A peculiarity in my vision: Colour vision deficiency
- No longer feared, but understood: Humane mental health care
- Training the immune system: Vaccination
- Like cures like: Homeopathy
- The hear the beating of the heart: The stethoscope[/rtoc]
- Cells and microbes, 1820-1890[rtoc]
- Let the healthy blood leap into the sick man: Blood transfusion and blood groups
- Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure: Anaesthesia
- Wash your hands: Hygiene
- Medicine needs men and women: Women in medicine
- All cells come from cells: Histology
- They mistook the smoke for the fire: Epidemiology
- A hospital should do the sick no harm: Nursing and sanitation
- Disturbances at the cellular level: Cellular pathology
- Make yourselves masters of anatomy: Gray’s Anatomy
- One must replace the scarring tissue: Skin grafts
- Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies: Germ theory
- A genetic misprint: Inheritance and hereditary conditions
- It is from particles that all the mischief arises: Antiseptics in surgery
- The field of vital phenomena: Physiology
- Defence against intruders: The immune system
- A single mosquito bite is all it takes: Malaria[/rtoc]
- Vaccines, Serums and Antibiotics, 1890-1945[rtoc]
- Solving the puzzle of cancer: Cancer therapy
- The darker shadow of the bones: X-rays
- Viruses are alpha predators: Virology
- Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious: Psychoanalysis
- It must be a chemical reflex: Hormones and endocrinology
- The action currents of the heart: Electrocardiography
- Strings of flashing and travelling sparks: The nervous system
- A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex: Alzheimer’s disease
- Magic bullets: Targeted drug delivery
- Unknown substances essential for life: Vitamins and diet
- An invisible, antagonistic microbe: Bacteriophages and phage therapy
- A weakened form of the germ: Attenuated vaccines
- To imitate the action of the pancreas: Diabetes and its treatment
- No woman is free who does not own her own body: Birth control
- Marvellous mould that saves lives: Antibiotics
- New windows into the brain: Electroencephalography
- Silent disease can be found early: Cancer screening[/rtoc]
- Global Health, 1945-1970[rtoc]
- We defend everyone’s right to health: The World Health Organization
- The artificial kidney can save a life: Dialysis
- Nature’s dramatic antidote: Steroids and cortisone
- The quietening effect: Lithium and bipolar disorder
- A psychic penicillin: Chlorpromazine and antipsychotics
- Changing the way you think: Behavioural and cognitive therapy
- A new diagnostic dimension: Ultrasound
- All the cells had 47 chromosomes: Chromosomes and Down syndrome
- Death becomes life: Transplant surgery
- A promising but unruly molecule: Interferon
- A sensation for the patient: Pacemakers
- The centre of our immune response: Lymphocytes and lymphatics
- The power to decide: Hormonal contraception
- Asking for proof of safety: The FDA and thalidomide
- A return to function: Orthopaedic surgery
- Smoking kills: Tobacco and lung cancer
- Help to live until you die: Palliative care[/rtoc]
- Genes and Technology: 1970 onwards[rtoc]
- Randomize till it hurts: Evidence-based medicine
- Seeing inside the body: MRI and medical scanning
- Antibodies on demand: Monoclonal antibodies
- Nature could not, so we did: In vitro fertilization
- Victory over smallpox: Global eradication of disease
- Our fate lies in our genes: Genetics and medicine
- This is everybody’s problem: HIV and autoimmune diseases
- A revolution through the keyhole: Minimally invasive surgery
- The first glimpse of our own human instruction book: The Human Genome Project
- Fixing a broken gene: Gene therapy
- The power of light: Laser eye surgery
- Hope for new therapies: Stem cell research
- Smaller is better: Nanomedicine
- The barriers of space and distance have collapsed: Robotics and telesurgery
- Public health enemy number one: Pandemics
- To reprogram a cell: Regenerative medicine
- This is my new face: Face transplants[/rtoc]
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