1. Ideas about Disease and Illness

• Continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness. 

• The influence in Britain of Pasteur’s Germ Theory and Koch’s work on microbes. 

Revision Pages:  

• Pasteur and Koch   1     2    3

Show You Know Test: 

• 10. Louis Pasteur and Germ Theory

• 11. Koch, Pasteur and Vaccination

Useful Videos:

• Period overview: c1700-c1900 (Medicine in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain)

• Why was the discovery of Germ Theory so important? 

• 19th Century Medicine | Secondary History 

• Pasteur and Koch 

3. Case Studies

• Key individual: Jenner and the development of vaccination. 

• Fighting Cholera in London, 1854; attempts to prevent its spread; the significance of Snow and the Broad Street pump 

Revision Pages:  

• Edward Jenner   1     2    

• John Snow and Public Health  1     2    3

Show You Know Test: 

• 9. Edward Jenner

• 15. John Snow and Public Health

Useful Videos:

• 18th Century Medicine | Secondary History

• Rapid Revision: Edward Jenner and Vaccination

• Chadwick and Snow | Secondary History 

• John Snow and the cholera outbreak of 1854 with Mike Jay