1. GCSE Revision – Medicine through time
Can you link the pictures with the time period and key discoveries??

2. 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?

3. Inference What does source A tell you about surgery in prehistoric
Prehistoric people had
made tools to do the
operation
Hole shows a process
called trepanning
Inference
You
make an
INFERENCE … a
suggestion
Do skulls prove all we need to know about Prehistoric medicine?
Source A
What does source A tell you
about surgery in prehistoric
times?
Some people survived
because healed skulls
have been found
Cutting holes released evil spirits
How do we know about Prehistoric medicine?

4. Att & religious beliefs
Prehistory
5000BC
3000BC
Att & religious beliefs
People thought that the
gods or evil spirits
caused disease
People thought that
illnesses could be cured by
supernatural charms &
evil spells

5. Bullet point as many things as you can about Egyptian
medicine by the time the music stops…
Supernatural & natural
explanations of disease
Egyptians had a ‘code of
hygiene’
Medicines contained
different herbs
Compared body to River
Nile – blocked channels
Picked up different
medical ideas through
trade
Treatments based on
purging
Doctors/Priests also used
charms etc
Doctors trained in
medicine – they examined
Patients & they had
specialist areas
The person who
lists the most gets
a prize

6. Egyptian Medicine Pharaohs Priests Embalming River Nile Trade
Most important god. Buried in tombs &
pyramids, paintings on the walls depicted
their lives
Pharaohs
Advised Pharaohs, could read & write. Religion
said priests should be clean this habit was
copied.
Priests
Egyptians believed people would need their
bodies in the afterlife. Brain & organs taken out,
then the body was sewn up & mummified.
Embalming
River Nile
Egyptian farmers were very successful & they dug
channels 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.
Trade

7. Att & religious beliefs
Egyptian
3000BC
1500BC
The Egyptians used their
metalworking skills to
improve surgical instruments
Att & religious beliefs
The Egyptians found out
more about the body
because they embalmed
their dead
Science & tech
Medical knowledge was
written down & passed on
from one generation to
the next
Through trade with other
countries & their own
observations the Egyptians
discovered the importance
of natural herbs & ointments
Communications

8. 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
Asclepion

9. Att & religious beliefs
Ancient Greece
1500BC
400BC
Individual genius
Hippocrates said that diseases
had natural causes. He said disease
was caused by the four humours
becoming out of balance
People went to the temples of
Asclepius because they thought
the gods caused & cured diseases
War
Att & religious beliefs
Education

10. Key question
Explain how the Romans
learnt about disease.
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.

11. Create a mind map on Roman Medicine
Ancient Rome
AD500
400BC
War
The Romans needed a healthy army
so they built hospitals, stayed away
from marshy places & learnt how
to supply clean water
Governments
Roman government officials &
doctors spread medical knowledge
across the empire
Individual genius
Science & tech
Galen added to Hippocrates’
ideas & used dissection to
find out about the
human body. Wrote over
60 medical books
The Romans used their
skills as builders to
provide pipelines,
sewers & baths
Create a mind map on Roman Medicine

12. Ancient medicine bingo!!
List as many key words as you can in your
bingo table relating to Ancient Medicine