1. Revision Spider Diagrams
Health and Medicine
Revision Spider Diagrams

2. Health and Medicine Medieval England 1250 - 1500 The Black Death
Medieval treatments for the Black Death
Theories of Hippocrates
Background of Medieval England
Theories of Galen
Bad air
The four humours
Causes of the Black Death
What was Medieval England like?
God’s punishment
Impact of the planets
The spread of the Black Death
Health and Medicine
Medieval England
Women
Apothecaries
Surgeons
The Church
Education
Physicians
Governments
Public sanitation
Hospitals
Attitudes: respect for tradition
Surgery
Factors that hindered progress
Individuals
Bleeding
Ideas about the causes of illness
Medieval Healers and Treatments
Herbal remedies

3. The Medical Renaissance 1500-1700
How were physicians trained?
Women healers
Training, healers and treatments
Andreas Vesalius
Treating the victims
Explanations for the plague
The Plague 1665
What Vesalius prove?
Folk remedies
Hospitals
Herbal remedies
How did people avoid the plague?
Preventing the plague from spreading
Folk remedies
God and king cures
Bleeding and purging
What did Vesalius do to prove his theories?
What did Harvey prove?
The Medical Renaissance
The end of the plague
What factors enabled Harvey to make his discoveries?
How did Malphigi improve Harvey’s work?
What did Harvey prove?
Scientific developments
What did Harvey do?
How did Harvey’s work improve medicine and health?
Why did traditional views lose support?
Renaissance ideas about the cause of diseases
What Galen said about blood?
What were the limits to Harvey’s discovery?
What caused the Renaissance?
The birth of the Renaissance
William Harvey
What was the Renaissance?

4. The development of Germ Theory
Simpson
The Black Period
Surgery
Continued home treatments
Factors that enabled improvements
Anaesthetics
Individuals
Lister and antiseptics
Government action
What was Nightingale’s idea?
Sewers
What did Nightingale do?
Other factors that improved hospitals?
Flushing toilets
How did hospitals change from
Vaccinations
Soap tax
Nightingale
What did Jenner do to prove his theory?
The development of Germ Theory
Crimean war
What was Jenner’s theory?
How did John Snow prove his theory?
What factors encouraged public health improvements?
Stage 1:
Jenner and Vaccination
What was John Snow’s theory?
Evidence that Jenner’s discovery had little impact:
Stage 2:
Evidence that Jenner’s discovery helped prevent disease:
Public Health:
Vaccinations
What public health improvements were made after 1875?
Stage 5:
Cholera:
What was Cholera?
Stage 3:
When and where did Cholera strike?
Stage 4:
Using Germ Theory to prevent diseases
Germ Theory

5. Modern Britain 1900 - Present Lung cancer Improvements in prevention
Pace of change since 1900
Preventing illnesses caused by lifestyle and other problems
Preventing infectious diseases caused by genetic problems
Preventing infectious diseases
High-Tech medical and surgical treatments
NHS
Modern Britain
Present
Impact of WW2
Florey and Chain
Improvements in treatments
Lifestyle factors
Fleming
Improvements in diagnosis
Improved access to care
DNA
Penicillin
Advances in medicines
Understanding the causes of illness
NHS

6. Time period
Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
Methods of treatment
Preventing disease and illness
1250 – 1500
1500 – 1700
1700 – 1900
present

7. Time period
What improved?
What caused improvements?
What hindered improvements?
1500 – 1700
Present