Title: Modern medicine
Description: Don Cruickshank traces the devlopments in medicine that took place during the Industrial Revolution: the transformation of folk remdies to potent medicines, the invention of ventilation systems to combat the spread of disease, the creation of the smallpox vaccine, and the start of what is now known as clinical trials.
Subjects: Medicine, History, Smallpox vaccine, Clinical trials, Ventilation, Health aspects, Industrial revolution