GCSE History Medicine in Britain - Joseph Lister Antiseptics Carbolic Acid (Lesson 23)

This lesson explores the background, work and impact of Joseph Lister’s work with antiseptics and carbolic acid. Students then question his importance in the progress of medicine.

**The lesson includes: **

• Clear learning aims and achievements

• Recap task: Key words linked to the lesson

• Starter activities: A range of visual sources, mainly illustrations to examine the before and after of antiseptics.

• Background information: About the life and work of Lister

• Task Sheet: A worksheet covering all aspects of Lister’s work with questions progessively becoming more challenging.

• Exam focus: A 16 and 12 mark question with structure advice
  Plenary: What was more important - Antiseptics or anaesthetics?

• FACT SHEET: Every lesson comes with a fact sheet which can be given to the students as a replacement for a text book. This means you will not need any other resources for the lesson unless you feel you would like to offer more.

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