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Science and Technology in Medicine through time

Science and Technology - the things to remember

1. Writing
2. The Printing Press
3. Gunpowder
4. The X-Ray
5. The Microscope
6. The Magic Bullet
7. Anaesthetics
8. Germ Theory
9. DNA
10. MRI Scanning
11. The Four Humours
12. Empirical Observation
13. Astronomy
14. Chemistry - distillation and sublimation
15. Vaccination

Revision task:

1. Link each of the 15 headings above with the time period in which they were first introduced into medical thinking / practice. (This will help you understand the chronology of scientific development)
2. Note down two ways in which each of these has led to PROGRESS in terms of treatments for patients. (This may involve research, and will help you to consolidate knowledge)
3. Sort these into order of importance. (This will help you to develop your understanding of significance)
4. You could then create a revision exercise for yourself and / or your friends to make of later. This can be done by adding the 9 most important into the Diamond 9 creator on classtools.net. If you want to return to this as a revision task, it is worth mixing them up again, so that the thinking process has to be repeated (and you may well come up with a different sequence of importance!)

See a detailed timeline of the way that science and technology have affected medicine.

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