any living organism which is too small to be seen without a microscope

bacteria grown under laboratory conditions

New 19th century ideas about the causes of disease and illness

History

Medieval ideas about the causes of illness and disease

Medieval approaches to treating and preventing disease

Medieval surgery

Medieval caregivers

The role of Christianity in Medieval medicine

The nature and importance of Islamic medicine and surgery

Medieval public health in towns and monasteries

The Black Death

Renaissance ideas about disease and illness

Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention

Renaissance changes in anatomy and surgery

William Harvey

Hospital care in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

The Great Plague of 1665

John Hunter

Edward Jenner and vaccination

19th century approaches to treatment and prevention

A 19th century revolution in surgery

The growth of hospital care in the 19th century

Fighting cholera in London in the 19th century

Improvements in public health in the 19th century

Modern advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease

Modern improvements in diagnosis

The development of magic bullets and antibiotics

Modern approaches to medical treatment

Improvements in modern surgery

The Liberal reforms and public health

The welfare state and the NHS

Modern approaches to the prevention of illness and disease

The fight against lung cancer in the 21st century

In this unit, pupils learn about a theme in British history over a period of roughly 1000 years. They examine this theme, analysing the impact it had in Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern Britain, with a particular focus on change and continuity.

Thematic Studies

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Physical illness or injury, medical procedures, blood.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

What is bacteria grown under laboratory conditions referred to as?

leading supporter of Germ Theory in Britain

proved that microbes caused some diseases

Match each individual to the correct description of their medical contributions.

A {{}} is any living organism which is too small to be seen without a microscope.

Which theory argued that microbes were the result of decay and disease?

What was a typhoid outbreak in Wales in the 1880s officially blamed on?

Spontaneous generation was used to explain the presence of microbes.

Robert Koch proved that certain microbes caused specific diseases.

Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.

Having {{}} means that someone is unable to catch a particular disease.

How many of King George III's 15 children were inoculated?

Which disease did smallpox vaccinations involve infecting a person with?

Smallpox death rates fell immediately after a vaccine was discovered.

Outbreaks of smallpox continued for decades after the invention of a vaccine.

Vaccination was very quickly more popular than inoculation.

almost everybody in the UK preferred vaccinations

the reason why it worked was fully understood

Why did the British government prefer vaccinations to inoculation?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

New 19th century ideas about the causes of disease and illness

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.