Medicine through time

Online archives are a great source of short clips that can be used in lessons. They can be used as nice introductions, e made available on the schol network as additional reference material or made available for pupils working on their own IT based revision materials. The time consming bit, as always, is finding them in the first place. This post is a simple time saver, the following are the clip titles and reference numbers for British Pathe News clips that I’ve used in medicine lessons.

British Pathe clips. How to access them:

Go to the British Pathe website
Select ‘Advanced Search’
Enter the reference number (below) into ‘Film ID’
Add the clip to your basket
Continue searching or proceed to the ‘check out’
If you are in a UK school you should be able to access high quality clips free of charge, if not, select not for profit or education from the use options and you can download a free demo version of the clip (it just has a small banner on it which doesn’t ruin the clip)
Follow the on screen instructions to download the clips to your chosen storage device.

As Pathe may reorganise / renumber items, you should be able to find clips by searching for the clip title if the clip ID is not found.

Pathe Clip names and references:

AMPUTEES LEARN TO USE ARTIFICIAL LIMBS - Clip ID is 1852.38
ANTI POLIO VACCINE - 1666.36
BLOOD BANKS - 1536.53
CAMERA TO SAVE LIFE - 1751.08
CANCER RESEARCH - 3310.01
cancerresearch - 2341.21
CHILDREN_S DENTISTRY 59.08
COFFIN NAILS 1493.03
CYSTIC FIBROSIS 3309.06
DEFENCE AGAINST DISEASE 3382.05
DIPTHERIA TRAILER 1512.37
diseaseofthecentury_overstress 2728.09
EYE OPERATION 3405.06
HEALING - MONOPOLY OR OPEN SHOP 1501.32
HEARING AID MUSEUM 411.03
HEART OPERATION AT THE HEART SURGERY INSTITUTE 2637.02
IMPROVING THE MICROSCOPE 2762.13
INFLUENZA TRAILER 1534.15
MAKING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS 1662.01
MANUFACTURE OF DRUG TO COUNTER 2473.11
MEDICAL SCIENCE CONQUERS POLIO 19.09
Medicine 1884.28
NHS TRAILER 1460.17
OPEN HEART SURGERY 2918.22
OPENING OF NEW CROOKES MIRACLE DRUG LABORATORY 58.39
PENICILLIN DISCOVERY 1944.23
PENICILLIN IN MASS PRODUCTION 2028.22
PLASTIC SURGERY1283.02
RAF INSTITUTE OF AVIATION MEDICINE 2784.17
SCIENCE AIDS MOTHERS 1407.02
SMALLPOX CITY QUEUES FOR VACCINATION 1462.04
SURGERY THROUGH THE AGES 2447.07
SWEEP AWAY ALL SLUMS 693.32
THE DOCTOR_S PROTEST 627.12
THE WAR ON PNEUMONIA 949.47
THREE ROADS TO HEALTH 1378.12
WONDER DRUG CEPORIN 3115.14
WORLD CANCER CONGRESS OPENS 1537.06