The growth of hospital care in the 19th century

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

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

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 mental health issues

Write the missing word. {{}} is another word used to refer to a hospital.

Which group was the drunken and incompetent Dickens character Sarah Gamp associated with?

Write the missing word. The danger infection posed to hospital patients was referred to as {{}} in the 19th century.

How many nurses were trained at the Nightingale School for Nurses between 1860 and 1903?

Which medical explanation encouraged Florence Nightingale to promote pavilion plans for hospitals?

Nightingale nurses only worked in London.

Nightingale nurses only treated rich patients.

Nightingale nurses still had poor reputations.

Nightingale nurses improved hospital care in workhouses.

What is a substance that makes you unable to feel pain known as?

Which surgical problem was the use of ether supposed to help manage?

Who pioneered the use of carbolic acid to sterilise wounds?

Which of the following was a method used as part of aseptic surgery?

Which medical theory inspired Jospeh Lister's work?

Most hospitals were run by the Catholic Church.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries took place.

New hospitals like St Guy's were founded.

Hospital conditions became increasingly unsanitary.

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

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

The growth of hospital care in the 19th century

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

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