AQA GCSE History: Health and the People Revision Notes (Reduced from £5)

This resource contains revision notes on the following topics:

• Hippocrates and the Four Humours
• Galen and Theory of Opposites
• Causes and treatments – natural and spiritual
• The influence of the Church
• Islamic medicine
• Surgery
• Public health and monasteries
• The Black Death
• Andreas Vesalius
• Ambroise Pare
• William Harvey
• Thomas Sydenham
• John Hunter
• Treatments
• The Great Plague – similarities and differences 1348 and 1666
• Nursing – Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
• Edward Jenner and Vaccination
• Germ Theory (Louis Pasteur)
• Robert Koch
• Paul Ehrlich
• Anaesthetics (Humphry Davy, James Simpson) and impact
• Antiseptics and Asepsis
• X-rays
• Blood transfusions and blood groups
• Plastic surgery
• Penicillin (Alexander Fleming; Howard Florey and Ernst Chain)
• Liberal social reforms
• Housing and health in the Industrial revolution to the Second World War
• The Beveridge Report and the creation of the NHS