Tudor Medicine
- Location: Lifelab
- Duration: 1 hour
- Availability: On demand
- Age Ranges(s): Upper KS2, KS3
- Minimum Number: 12
- Maximum Number: 36
What did Tudor plague doctors really know about infectious diseases? Learn about the bubonic plague and other diseases of the time and the medicines and herbal remedies used to treat them and use Francis Bacon’s ‘scientific method’ to carry out an SC1 investigation into the growth of micro-organisms. The workshop concludes with a dialogue activity about medicine in the past, now and in the future.