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