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Medicine, Surgery and Public Health, c. 1750-1900

GCSE Coursework Assignment I

You will find below several websites relating to each of the people you should discuss in your coursework.

If you take notes from any of the sites to use in your essay, remember to write down the name and address of the relevant site.

When looking at the sites, remember to focus your reading and note-taking on the Student Guidance questions.

Edward Jenner

	Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
	Edward Jenner Museum
	BBC Medicine Through Time Jenner Page
	Letters from Jenner on vaccination

James Simpson

	BBC Medicine Through Time Simpson page
	Queen Victoria and Sir James Simpson

Louis Pasteur

	Louis Pasteur site
	BBC Medicine Through Time Pasteur page

Florence Nightingale

	The Florence Nightingale Story from the Florence Nightingale Museum
	A selection of letters written by Florence Nightingale
	A tribute to Florence Nightingale

Alexander Fleming

	Sir Alexander Fleming, biography and links
	Alexander Fleming biography (American)
	Another biography of Fleming
	BBC Medicine Through Time Fleming page

You may also find the BBC GCSE Medicine through Time website useful for background information. The GCSE Bitesize site also contains brief information and hints on writing good GCSE essays on medicine topics.

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