Thursdays 10.30-12.30pm

Starts 12th February

(Chris Weir)

5-week course £45.00

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Join Chris Weir for a journey into this  course will Bygone Medicine will highlight many aspects of the history of Medicine. It will take a look at the Greek belief in the 4 ‘humours’. These were believed to determine both your personality and your health; and this belief lasted for many centuries. In later times there were individual physicians who pioneered the development of surgery, medical treatments and the value of herbs. These included Erasmus Darwin who was born in 1731 at Elston Hall in Nottinghamshire. In Holland pioneers like Herman Boerhaave led improvements to surgical techniques and they founded the influential medical school at Leiden University. The impact of the Plague, Cholera and other epidemics on villages and towns will also be considered as well as Medicine under the local poor law, in workhouses and early Hospitals.

Please note that parts of the course look at surgical details and symptoms of mental and physical illnesses.

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