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Medicine Through Time/Health And The People
“Our
GCSE historians were fortunate enough to attend a talk given by a specialist in medical history. Kevin Goodman from ‘Bows,
Blades and Battles’ showed his vast repertoire of medical tools and showed students how surgeons would treat the afflicted
in simpler times. His knowledge and expertise offered excellent support to the students as they prepared for their exams.”
Birmingham
Ormistan Academy
Ideal for Edexcel "Medicine in Britain c.1250-present" ; AQA "Health and the people: c.1000 to the present
day"; OCR The People's Health c.1250 to present"
Includes (can be adjusted according to requirements):
- Beliefs about the causes of illness and disease from the Four Humours to Germ Theory.
- How illness and diseases were diagnosed from the Four Humours to Germ Theory.
- The treatment of illnesses and disease from Bloodletting to Antibiotics (including vaccinations); accompanied by an
appropriate display of equipment.
- How a person's status and living conditions affected their health, hygiene, illnesses and treatment up to the modern
day.
- Diseases examined include the Black Death, Great Plague, Hansen's Disease, and Cholera.
- The influence of the supernatural.
Surgery
Includes:
- A display of museum-quality reproduction surgical instruments for amputation and trepanning from medieval to the modern
day and a demonstration of how they were used.
- The anaesthetics and antiseptics used, and significant individuals (Pare, Vesalius et al).
- Comparisons with the medical diagnosis and treatments of today.
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