GCSE History Medicine: Religious & Rational Treatments and Prevention (Lesson 5)

**This lesson has a focus on how the people of Medieval Britain treated and attempted to prevent medical problems linked with the Theory of the Four Humours and Miasma.

• The lesson includes both supernatural & religious treatments as well as the more rational treatments of the time.**

• The lesson includes a recap from previous learning, choice of starter task, background information about the wider historical context, a set of learning tasks which are differentiated for higher and lower ability, extention task/s, a focus on the exam questions, a review (plenary) and finally two fact sheets which can be used as a replacement for any books.

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