Pre-booking not required
Duration
Suggested 30 mins
Suitable for:
Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4,
The Glimpses of Medical History gallery covers the work of doctors, dentists, opticians and surgeons. Models and life-size reconstructions illustrate developments in medical practice across the centuries. Medical scenes include operating theatres, pharmacies and optician practices through time.
Use the gallery to explore the following ideas:
- Over the last 100 years, equipment used by the medical professions has improved
- Healthcare now includes preventative measures, whereas in the past it focused on cures
- Improved hygiene and sterilisation techniques increase the chances of medical successes
- More people use medical experts today than in the past.
In the gallery ask children to select one profession to study in depth. Ask them to find a display showing their chosen medical person at work - the following display cases will be most useful (the time period represented in the scene is given in brackets):
Doctor; display case no. 4 (1400s), no. 19 (1799), no. 31 (1868), no. 36 (1905), no. 41(1900).
Dentist: display case no. 22 (1930s), no.38 (1890s).
Optician: display case no. 5 (1000s), no. 25 (1930s).
Surgeon: display case no. 1 (15000-5000BC), no. 8 (1500s), no. 12 (1800), no.14 (1914-19), no. 26 (1980), no. 35 (1300), no.40 (1895).
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