This work provides an empathetic approach to the major changes, developments and trends, along with the long-term causes and consequences of changes in medicine. These approaches to the following aspects of "Medicine Through Time" are covered in core examinations. Topics covered are early peoples and medicine, drugs and medicine - medicine in ancient Egypt, the Greeks and medicine, the Romans and the beginning of public health, medicine in the middle ages, the medical renaissance and medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries.