to say what is wrong with someone who is sick

to say what medical treatment someone needs

groups of buildings that are a home for religious men or women who live separately from other people

Medieval caregivers

History

Medieval ideas about the causes of illness and disease

Medieval approaches to treating and preventing disease

Medieval surgery

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

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

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

Depiction or discussion of serious mental health issues including eating disorders, self-harm, suicide or attempted suicide, or the aftermath of such an event.

Depiction or discussion of mental health issues

What word means 'to say what is wrong with someone who is sick'?

performed procedures such as bloodletting

often observed the urine of their patients

Match each of the medieval caregivers to the correct description of their work.

Write the missing number. Over {{}} hospitals were founded in England between 1000 and 1500.

How were most medieval physicians trained at university?

The poor could not access any medical care in medieval Britain.

The poor mostly received medical care from trained caregivers.

The poor mostly received medical care from untrained caregivers.

The poor benefitted from free medical care provided by the Government.

Surgeries are considered {{}} because they involve cutting into the body.

Which of the following was not a major problem of medieval surgery?

Trepanning involved drilling a hole into which part of the body?

Which major problem of surgery was cauterisation used to try and manage?

Why was opium not used more commonly as a medieval anaesthetic?

Starter Quiz