1.  starter activity
How much can you remember about Prehistoric medicine & Ancient Egptian medicine? Study your notes for 3 minutes and then answer these questions ….

2. What did prehistoric tribes use as a cure for headaches?
How can we learn about prehistoric people?
Give 3 examples of how medicine improved under Egyptians?
How did Egyptians explain disease – 2 ways
Who were Ir-en-akhty and Sekhmet and what do they tells us about Egyptian medicine?

3. Trepanning
Comparing with existing tribes, e.g,. Aborigines
Writing (papyrus & hieroglyphs), specialist doctors, new explanations of causes (channels), new treatments, anatomy & better instruments
Supernatural (evil spirits) / theory of channels
Eye specialist & Goddess of Healing – use of specialist doctors & continuing supernatural practices

4. Was Hippocrates the greatest doctor of them all?
 LOs
To assess how much I have learned about prehistoric & Egyptian medicine
To identify why Hippocrates was such an important doctor
To create a modern-day Hippocratic oath

5. 
Watch this short film about Hippocrates. Note down as many of his achievements as you can.
 How different was Hippocrates from what went before?
Hippocrates, born c.460BC

6. Read p.28-9 and jot down these headings:
Hippocratic Oath
Hippocratic Collection
Observing and recording
Natural treatments
Causes of disease
Decide which was his Hippocrates greatest achievement and write a paragraph explaining your choice.
How did Hippocrates move medicine on from prehistoric times and Ancient Egypt?

7. Role play task
Imagine you are the host of a TV show like ‘This is Your Life’. Hippocrates is the guest. Invite back friends & relatives who would have known him. Possible guests might include:
Mother & Father
Teachers from Cos
Patients
Other doctors

8. Extension task
Devise a modern-day Hippocratic Oath. Think about some of the challenges facing today’s doctors and some of the complex moral and ethical issues they have to deal with.

9.  Extension
Explore the weblinks on the Studyhistory website. Weblinks > GCSE. Visit some of the sites and add additional information to your table on Hippocrates. Do this in a different colour so you can see this is information from your own research.

10.  Exam practice
Section B, Qa: ‘Choose one of the individuals who influenced the development of medicine’
Hippocrates
Person X
What did he do to influence the development of medicine?
Timing: spend roughly 8 minutes on this question

11. Level 1 (1-2 marks)
Level 2 (3-4 marks)
Simple description of an individual’s achievements
Provides basic details about the individual, e.g. Hippocrates introduced a new oath, his books were brought together in the Hippocratic Collection, he sued natural treatments and observed and recorded his findings, he invented the theory of the four humours
Describes and explains the achievements of an individual
Refers to most of the key achievements in Level 1 but explains why they were important, e.g. the use of natural treatments mean that people were moving away from supernatural explanations or the Hippocratic Collection meant that remedies could be recorded and shared with other doctors

12.  Homework
Revise for a timed question on Prehistoric, Egyptian and Greek Medicine.
Produce an obituary on Hippocrates – you’ll find a template on the Studyhistory website.
Extension. Supplement your knowledge using evidence from the weblinks on the Studyhistory website.

13.  Plenary 3 areas you need to revise more thoroughly
3 examples of things you’d expect to find in a Hippocratic Oath
Give 5 reasons why Hippocrates was such a great doctor
What would you put in a modern-day Hippocratic Oath?