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This video covers: The early life of Mary Seacole, and her first experience of treating cholera victims in Panama.
This video covers: Mary Seacole's travels and her decision to volunteer as a nurse in the Crimea.
This video covers: A look at some of the medieval beliefs and ideas that were thought to have caused the plague.
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This video covers: A description of the Black Death and the difference between the bubonic and pneumonic plague.
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This video covers: Mary Seacole travel to and arrival in the Crimea.
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This video covers: An eye witness account from Samuel Pepys of the Great Plague in London in 1665.
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This video covers: An introduction to Galen, his travels as a young man and the importance of Alexandria, Egypt.
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This video covers: A look at people's reaction to the plague and how they dealt with it.
This video covers: How William Harvey discovered circulation; how blood flowed around the body.
This video covers: How Mary Seacole built the British Hotel at Kadikoi in the Crimea to tend to the needs of sick and convalescing...
This video covers: Galen explains what the four humours are and how they could be balanced to make people better.
This video covers: How the dead were disposed of during the Black Death
This video covers: An overview of Mary Seacole's life and work in the Crimea.
This video covers: An introduction to William Harvey, his early years and his discoveries.
This video covers: Life for Mary Seacole when the Crimea War ended in 1856 and her return to London.
This video covers: Galen talks about the discoveries of Herophilus and Erasistratus
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This video covers: An introduction to John Snow, who he is and his thoughts on Cholera
This video covers: How Louis Pasteur discovered pasteurisation and worked on his germ theory
This video covers: How Dr John Snow went about proving his theory on how Cholera was spread.