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

History

Medieval ideas about the causes of illness and disease

Medieval approaches to treating and preventing disease

Medieval surgery

Medieval caregivers

The Black Death

Renaissance ideas about disease and illness

Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention

Renaissance changes in anatomy and surgery

William Harvey

The Great Plague of 1665

Edward Jenner and vaccination

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

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

The welfare state and the NHS

Modern approaches to medical treatment

Modern approaches to the prevention of illness and disease

The fight against lung cancer in the 21st century

In this unit, pupils learn about either migrants in Britain or medicine in Britain over a period of roughly 1000 years. They examine one of these themes, analysing the impact it had in Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern Britain, with a particular focus on change and continuity.

Thematic studies

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Physical illness or injury, medical procedures, blood.

What word is used to describe conditions which are dirty or unhealthy and are therefore likely to cause disease?

The number of hospitals in England {{}} as a result of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Who founded Guy's Hospital in London in 1724?

Which groups were least likely to be found staffing 18th century hospitals?

How did conditions in hospitals change during the 18th century?

focused on spiritual, not physical, recovery

often based on the Theory of the Four Humours

Why was treatment in hospitals during the 18th century often ineffective?

{{}} refers to the movement of blood around the body.

Galen incorrectly claimed that blood was made in the ...

Whose work was challenged by William Harvey's theories on blood circulation?

How many dissections were carried out by medical professors each year at Cambridge University in the late-16th century?

Most physicians stopped recommending bloodletting.

Physicians became evenly split on whether to recommend or avoid bloodletting.

Most physicians continued to recommend bloodletting.

How did William Harvey's ideas affect the use of bloodletting as a medical treatment?

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

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

Lesson outcome

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