The Fight against Infectious Disease

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Prehistoric Medicine	Egyptian	Ancient	Roman
	Medicine	Greece	Medicine
Coming Soon!	Online activities, backgrounds to the religious aspects of Egyptian religion and explanations of key points.	Hippocrates and the Cult of Asclepios explained. Establish what the 'Four Humours' were and test your knowledge with the online quizzes.	Galen, Roman Public Health and the influence of the army on medical practice. Lots of links and activities added to this section.
Oriental and Islamic Medicine	Medieval Medicine	Vesalius	Infectious Disease
Islamic and Oriental Medicine	Barber-Surgeons through to the plague. Includes KEY SKILLS activities.	Andreas Vesalius' contribution to medicine: with activities.	Jenner, Fleming, Florey and Chain along with the dispute between Pasteur and Koch.

Glossary vocabulary test	This activity checks your knowledge of infectious disease
Drag and Drop game	Do you know who developed each form of medicine?
Breakthrough against Infectious Disease	Use the information in this unit to answer a detailed question, then see how it compares with a suggested response. Ideal revision tool.
Currently being tested.
Investigation	How did a Cow called Daisy save the world?
The Fleming Myth	An inquiry into the development of Penicillin.
Pasteur versus Koch	Which of these fierce rivals was the greatest?
Source based activities	A range of source based questions with prompts to help you improve your written answers.