Edexcel GCSE History 1HI0
Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88British depth
British America, 1713–83: Empire and RevolutionPeriod study
Conflict in the Middle East, 1945–95Period study
Crime and Punishment in Britain, c1000–presentPaper 1 option
Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88British depth
Henry VIII and His Ministers, 1509–40British depth
London and the Second World War, 1939–45Paper 1 option
Mao’s China, 1945–76Modern depth
Medicine in Britain, c1250–presentPaper 1 option
Migrants in Britain, c800–presentPaper 1 option
Notting Hill, c1948–c1970Paper 1 option
Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41Modern depth
Spain and the ‘New World’, c1490–c1555Period study
Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941–91Period study
The American West, c1835–c1895Period study
The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: Injuries, Treatment and the TrenchesPaper 1 option
The Reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216British depth
The USA, 1954–75: Conflict at Home and AbroadModern depth
Warfare and British Society, c1250–presentPaper 1 option
Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39Modern depth
Whitechapel, c1870–c1900: Crime, Policing and the Inner CityPaper 1 option
Medicine in Britain, c1250–present
Approaches to prevention and treatment, c1250–c1500
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Overview
Religious actions and the flagellants, bloodletting and purging, purifying the air against miasma, the regimen sanitatis, how treatments matched explanations, the training and methods of physicians, apothecaries and barber surgeons, Church-run hospitals and whom they turned away, care at home and herbal remedies.
What you need to know
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Which idea about disease made people try to purify the air around them?
What was a regimen sanitatis?
Questions from this subtopic
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Name three religious actions taken to prevent or cure illness in medieval England.
Model answer
Praying, going on pilgrimage to a saint’s shrine, and fasting or giving money to the Church as penance.
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Who were the flagellants and what did they do?
Model answer
People who whipped themselves in public to show God they were sorry for their sins and to beg him to lift the disease.
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What was bloodletting meant to achieve?
Model answer
Removing an excess humour, usually blood, so that the body’s fluids returned to balance.
- 4
Give two ways blood was let from a patient.
Model answer
By cutting open a vein with a knife and catching the blood, or by placing leeches on the skin.
- 5
What was purging and how was it done?
Model answer
Emptying the body of an excess humour by making the patient vomit or empty the bowels, using specially mixed drinks.
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Which idea about disease made people try to purify the air around them?
Model answer
Miasma theory, which blamed the foul smells of rotting matter for causing illness.
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