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GCSE Revision – Medicine through time
Can you link the pictures with the time period and key discoveries??
What do you need to do to get a C or above?
• Remember what the mark scheme wants…
Sources – Inference (what does the source suggest?)
- answers that consider additional knowledge- use the source!! Include brief
quotes with an explanation - what does the source reveal about medicine during that
time?
Inference
Source A
What does source A tell youabout surgery in prehistoric times?
Cutting holes released evil spirits
Some people survived because healed skulls have been found
Prehistoric people hadmade tools to do the operation
Hole shows a process called trepanning
How do we know about Prehistoric medicine?
Do skulls prove all we need to know about Prehistoric medicine?
You make
an INFERENCE
…a
suggestion
Prehistory
People thought that the gods or evil spirits caused disease
People thought that illnesses could be cured bysupernatural charms &evil spells
5000BC 3000BC
Bullet point as many things as you can about Egyptianmedicine by the time the music stops…
The person who lists the most getsa prize
Supernatural & natural explanations of disease
Compared body to RiverNile – blocked channels
Treatments based on purging
Doctors trained in medicine – they examinedPatients & they had specialist areas
Egyptians had a ‘code ofhygiene’
Medicines contained different herbs
Picked up different medical ideas through trade
Doctors/Priests also usedcharms etc
Pharaohs
Trade
River Nile
Embalming
Priests
Egyptian MedicineMost important god. Buried in tombs &pyramids, paintings on the walls depictedtheir lives
Advised Pharaohs, could read & write. Religion said priests should be clean this habit was copied.
Egyptians believed people would need their bodies in the afterlife. Brain & organs taken out, then the body was sewn up & mummified.
Egyptian farmers were very successful & they dugchannels from the Nile to water their fields, sometimes they got blocked – applied this to bodies
Traded with India, China & other countries. They exchanged goods for herbs, plants & ointments that were known to have healing properties.
Egyptian
Medical knowledge was written down & passed on from one generation to the next
Through trade with othercountries & their ownobservations the Egyptiansdiscovered the importanceof natural herbs & ointments
The Egyptians used their metalworking skills to improve surgical instruments
The Egyptians found outmore about the body because they embalmed their dead
3000BC 1500BC
Greek Medicine
Can you remember the Greeks big ideas?
How were they made possible? Circle the key words at the bottom of the sheet
Hippocrates Asclepio
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Ancient Greece1500BC 400BC
People went to the temples of Asclepius because they thoughtthe gods caused & cured diseases
Hippocrates said that diseaseshad natural causes. He said diseasewas caused by the four humoursbecoming out of balance
Malaria
When soldiers camped near marshes they became ill with MALARIA.
Dirty water = Disease
Hospitals – built for soldiers with trained doctors & surgeons.Mostly depended on herbal medicine, simple surgery, or rest, diet & exercise.
Key questionExplain how the Romans learnt about disease.
Ancient Rome
Galen added to Hippocrates’ideas & used dissection to find out about the human body. Wrote over60 medical books
The Romans used their skills as builders to provide pipelines, sewers & baths
Roman government officials &doctors spread medical knowledgeacross the empire
The Romans needed a healthy armyso they built hospitals, stayed awayfrom marshy places & learnt howto supply clean water
400BCAD500
Create a mind map on Roman Medicine
Ancient medicine bingo!!
List as many key words as you can in your bingo table relating to Ancient Medicine