AQA GCSE History: Britain Health & People - Progress in Medieval Surgery? (Lesson 4)

In this lesson, students will examine how much progress was made in Medieval surgery between c.1000 to c.1500. They will focus on the role of warfare, religion and key individuals such as John of Arderne, Hugh and Theodoric of Lucca and Abulcasis. Students will also investigate the techniques used in Medieval surgery such as bloodletting, trepanning, amputation and cauterisation.

This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet based on the GCSE AQA specification as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.

The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide – Where did Medieval ideas about Medicine come from?
Slide 2: Outline of the main lessons aims
Slide 3: As you come in activity and discussion
Slide 4-6: Activity - Previous Learning Recap - Missing terms with print out.
Slide 7: Activity – Identify the dangers of Medieval surgery from the image
Slide 8: Background information about the main causes of death during Medieval surgery.
Side 9: Background information and analysis of the Wounded Man illustration
Slide 10-12: Medieval images showing trepanning, cauterisation and barber surgeons
Slide 13-15: Background information about the key individuals John of Arderne, Hugh and Theodoric of Lucca and Abulcasis
Slide 16: Activity – Was there progress in Medieval surgery task with challenge.
Slide 17: Activity – Printable worksheet for the lesson based on the fact sheet.
Slide 18: Follow Up challenge Tasks
Slide 19: Useful class clips and reading links
Slide 20: Example Exam Questions
Slide 21-22: Learning Review Quiz (with answers)
Slide 23: The main factors which caused change in Medicine Diagram
Slide 24: Lesson Fact Sheet – based on the AQA GCSE specification.

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