Public Health

• Britain and the Health of its people. C.1000 to present day-Thematic Study
• PRAT


  Purpose, reliability, authorship, tone
• The Galenical system said the Calenic system changed. This held back medical understanding
• Books were written about the human body and the medical school reviewed human bodies
• Apothecaries became more important
• People in the Middle Ages believed in Astrology - the movement of stars and planets could affect your life on earth, They studied the stars to see what had caused the plague. Some believed it had been brought by an event in the sky
• What did people believe caused the plague?
• Were any of these ideas correct?
• Soldiers and doctors in the Middle Ages had plenty of experience dealing with wounds and the sick, which will have forced them to learn things that others did not know
• Why was changing Galen considered to be heresy?
• Why were people in the Middle Ages so concerned about human anatomy?
• Surgeons in the Middle Ages but you are simply sampling
• Surgery throughout the Middle Ages was the same with a major operation being a major event
• The Cyg
• The Middle Ages
• Positives and Negatives of medicine in the Middle Ages
• What examples of Public Health did the Romans have?
• When did the Victorians start collecting data about births, deaths and health?
• Why are Medieval towns described as dirty and crowded?
• What does sanitation mean?
• How do we know that people in the Middle Ages tried to keep as clean as possible?
• Why would open sewers running through the streets have been a problem?
• What did butchers do with animal waste?
• The big change 1400-1800 The Age of Discovery and the Renaissance
• Mary Seacole who performed 14,000 operations
• Read the say above and then revise
• Health & Medicine should take you 40 minutes
• Then answer the other questions for PS Commenting on the factors that influenced medical progress
• Try to make links between the factors
• Explain which factor you think is most important
• The printing press in the 15th century would have helped medical understanding
• Can you explain how and why?
• By 1500 the power of the Catholic church was waning and the printing press was becoming increasingly popular
• How do you think the printing press helped medicine make progress in the Renaissance?
• Thomas Sydenham- The English Hippocrates
• Typical Renaissance Healers
• What factors led to the discovery about smallpox?
• The impact of the French physician
• How any did he perform?
• Summarise the key points