1. Starter Quiz
TASK: Please write down the title, and 1-9 in your margin on a new sheet of paper.
1. Which disease did Jenner think made people immune to smallpox
2. What were the main two ingredients of quack medicine?
3. Which group of people did the Nazis forcibly sterilise?
4. What book did Jane Sharp publish that was widely read and used?
5. What is inoculation?
6. Why was there a need for voluntary hospitals?
7. What does Kristallnacht mean?
8. When was Kristallnacht?
9. When was vaccination made compulsory?
Last lesson = 1 pt
Last week = 2 pt
Last term = 3 pt

2. 3. People with what the Nazis called ‘hereditary’ illness
Last lesson = 1 pt
Last week = 2 pt
Last term = 3 pt
1. Cowpox
2. Alcohol and opium
3. People with what the Nazis called ‘hereditary’ illness
4. ‘The Midwives Book’ 1671
5. Vaccination where the skin is scratched not injected
6. The abolition of the monasteries, lack of government intervention.
7. Night of the broken glass

3. Medicine Lesson 7: The Plague and other diseases
Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Great learning: Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Even better: Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665
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4. Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Look at Source 4 on Page 46- What does this tell us about medicine and living conditions in early modern England.
Alexander Gordon noticed that death rates from child-bed fever were worse for those treated by doctors and nurses in towns who moved from patient were worse than those isolated cases in villages treated locally. He concluded that:
Doctors, nurses or anyone else treating the sick should wash their clothes frequently and wash their hands in chlorinated water
How were his ideas received in 1795?
In the long term how were his ideas received?
Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Great learning: Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Even better: Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665

5. Understand what people thought caused the plague
Based measures brought into prevent the plague and picture of a plague doctor what does it appear they believed was spreading/ causing the plague (complete worksheet).
Does any of the evidence suggest a real understanding of the what caused the disease?
Does any of the evidence suggest that there were any ideas on how to cure the plague?
Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Great learning: Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Even better: Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665

6. Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Impact of the Plague
Complete the Think questions 1-4 on page 48
How big an impact was the plague having on England in 1664 and 1665?
Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Great learning: Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Even better: Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665

7. Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665
Do Think questions 2, 5 and 6 on Page 47
Overall how much improvement had there been from to 1665?
Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Great learning: Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Even better: Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665

8. Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Extension
Were People healthier in 1800? (P49)
Which factors inhibited or encouraged medical change at this time? (P50)
Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Great learning: Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Even better: Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665

9. Medicine Lesson 7: The Plague and other diseases
Good learning: Understand what people thought caused the plague
Great learning: Explain how Alexander Gordon ideas impacted on Medicine in the long term and short term
Even better: Evaluate how much medicine had advanced from the Black death in and the Plague in 1665
Key Words: