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History Resources

Try our online history of medicine activities.

Lands & Islands

Lands & Islands

Cut, colour and explore interactive activities based on medical life in 19th-century Highlands and Islands

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(Maybe) Magical Healers

(Maybe) Magical Healers

Explore folk healing and magical medicines that were used in the Highlands and Islands for hundreds of years

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Making House Calls

Making House Calls

Review Levels 2&3 maths while travelling to places around the Highlands and Islands as a physician in the 1850s

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Medical Scavenger Hunt

Medical Scavenger Hunt

Use your data collecting skills to plot the use of medicine and the common ailments of local communities

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Victorian doctor writing with scalpel

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