A complete, ready-to-teach illustrated revision and exam-practice lesson covering the major developments in nineteenth-century medicine.

Students review and compare:

Edward Jenner and vaccination
Louis Pasteur and Germ Theory
Robert Koch and specific microbes
Anaesthetics and the removal of pain
Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery
Florence Nightingale and professional nursing
John Snow and the Broad Street investigation
Chadwick, the Public Health Acts and Bazalgette’s sewers

Rather than simply revisiting each individual, students compare the pace of change in:

Understanding disease
Prevention
Treatment
Surgery
Nursing and care
Public health

The lesson also teaches students how to explain why change occurred by connecting factors such as science, technology, individuals, government, attitudes, communication, war and public-health crises.

Includes:

18 fully editable PowerPoint slides
Low-stakes retrieval practice
Confidence checking and error diagnosis
Complete two-page illustrated catch-up knowledge pack
Coverage for pupils who missed earlier lessons
Interleaved comparison activities
Pace-and-impact comparison matrix
Illustrated causation evidence bank
Clear I do, we do and you do modelling
Model connected-causation paragraph
Faded writing scaffold
Independent exam-style question
AfL editing activity
Comparative judgement plenary

The revision sequence uses evidence-informed strategies including retrieval practice, metacognitive checking, interleaving, self-explanation and scaffolded independent practice.

All teaching slides use accessible Comic Sans text at a minimum of 20pt. Printable resources use a minimum of 14pt.