History of Medicine lesson for Egyptian medicine.

1. WALT: Decide whether
Egyptian medicine was
better than Pre-Historic.
D - Describe the Egyptian way of life.
C - Describe some Egyptian approaches to disease and medicine.
B - Explain how factors of change caused progress in knowledge
of medicine.
A - Evaluate how much progress had been made.

2. Quick Quiz
1. Describe society in prehistoric times.
2. Define ‘Nomad’?
3. How would they treat Natural occurring injuries (accidents
or wounds etc).
4. How would they treat Supernatural injuries (caused by
Gods).
5. What was the role of the Medicine man?
6. What is trepanning?
Now use your shiny new textbooks to fill in any gaps in your knowledge.
EXT- A – Examine Source 3 in the books and tell me what the source tells
Historian about Prehistoric medicine?

3. Q. What does this suggest
about Egyptian society?
The pyramids
were build
around 4,000
years ago.
Buildings of
there size were
not surpassed
for thousands
of years.

4. Just Watch – Think about
the WALT
Now Promenade and
discuss the Question.
WALT: Decide whether Egyptian medicine
was better than Pre-Historic.

5. Egyptian Society
Write a paragraph to describe what Egyptian society was like.
• First great world civilization. 5000bc. Kings=Pharaoh
• Settled farming economy, organized government & laws.
• Some were wealthy to take care of their health
• Formal Religion (PT) required temples, priests & rituals.
• Invented skills of writing and calculation.
• Traveled and traded all over known world.
Quick Table of Similarities & Differences in treatment from
PreHistory & Egyptians.

6. TASK: Complete a Spider Diagram of the ways
in which these factors affected medicine.
Medicine in
Ancient
Egypt
Religion
War
Technology Chance
Individual
Government
EXT: Explain how
Egyptian medicine
changed and
why?

7. EGYPTIAN CARDS…
• YOU HAVE TO COMPLETE THE BACKS OF THE CARD WITH
THE RELEVANT FACTOR (JUST ONE WILL DO).
• SWAP!! THE PAIR WILL HAVE TO ORDER THE FACTORS AND
THEN WRITE THEM DOWN AND JUSTIFY WHY YOU THINK
IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR OF CHANGE.
• How does it Equal change?

8. Exam Question
Q. Did medicine in Egyptian times get better, worse or was
it a period of continuity? (D-C)
Q. What factors led to changes in Egyptian medicine (&
how)? (C-A)
For both questions you need to make a judgment to hit the top
marks for that question. Don’t just give me description.

9. Paraphrase…
Q. Did Egyptian medicine get better or
worse & why?

10. RELIGION CHANCE WAR
TECHNOLOGY GOVERNMENT INDIVIDUAL

11. Religion

12. War

13. Chance

14. Technology

15. Government

16. Individual