Educational Field Trips
Whether you are visiting St. Augustine for hours
or days, Ancient City Tours will plan an Educational
Field Trip that will meet all of your students'
educational
needs!
We Provide:
- PROFESSIONAL GUIDE SERVICE
ACT Guides are all licensed
with the City of St. Augustine and the National
Park Service.
- ITINERARY PLANNING AND SCHEDULING
ACT will custom
plan all of your activities for your specific
group. One check to ACT will cover
all of your expenses.
- TRANSPORTATION, MEALS, ACCOMMODATIONS
We will plan
these aspects of your trip if needed.
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Educational Materials:
Word Hunt
Medical Symbols
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Mortar
and Pestle – As early as the 15th
century mortars and pestles were used by Ancient
Apothecaries to grind herbs to be made into medicines.
Today it continues to be a symbol of pharmacists
or drug stores. |
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Show Globe – Show globes were displayed
in the front windows of Drug Stores as early
as the 17th century. The bottom would be filled
with a colored liquid. It is generally believed
that if the liquid was green the townspeople
were health and if the liquid was red it served
as a warning sign that there was a disease in
the town. |
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The Caduseus is the sign of the Ancient Physician.
Today it depicts the body’s functions.
The top is in the brain and the upright staff
represents the “Tree of Life” or
the spinal column. It is believed that the serpents
represent positive and negative influences on
the body. |
Student Activity – Allow
you students the opportunity through library sources
to do further research on
these and other Medical symbols. Then ask
the students to design their own medical symbol
based on the area of medicine that they choose.
(Surgery,
patient
care,
medicine)
Medical Practices Then and Now
The information shared
on this site is by NO means
to be used as diagnosis or treatment
Cupping: Defined as “ application of a glass
vessel from which the air has been exhausted by heat
or a special suction apparatus to the skin in order
to draw blood to the surface” (Tauber’s
Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary)
The earliest form of “cupping” was used
by Ge Hong (281-341) The method, described by him
in his book A Handbook of Prescriptions for Emergencies,
stated that the cups were made of horn and were used
to drain pustules. The procedure was later prescribed
for headaches, dizziness, pulmonary tuberculosis
and abdominal pain.
Procedure: A glass “cup” is heated by
holding a small flame inside to create a vacuum.
The cup is then placed on the area to be treated
and left for approximately 5 minutes. The skin
is sucked up into the cup, which encourages the flow
of blood to the surface of the skin.
Actress Gwenyth
Paltrow arrived at a New York film premiere of the
movie The Anchorman, July
2004,
with visible circular welts on her back.
She received them after undergoing “dry cupping” treatment.
Paltrow is said to be a fan of many alternative
therapies and it is believed she chose cupping
to rid her body of toxins.
Sunshine State Standards
Information given to elementary
aged students while visiting the
Spanish Military Hospital Museum will meet the
following Sunshine Standards for:
Social Studies
Standard #1
(1) Understands how individuals, ideas,
decisions and events can influence history
(2) Uses a variety of methods and sources
to understand history
Standard #2
(1) Knows the significant and technological
achievements of various societies
Standard
#4
(1) Understands the geographical, economic,
political, and cultural factors that
characterized early exploration
of the Americas
(2) Understands why colonial America
was settled in regions
Standard #6
(2) Understands the influence of geography
on the history of Florida
Science - Matter:
Standard #1
(2) Knows that common materials can
be changed from one state to another
by
heating and cooling
(4) Knows that different materials
are made by physically combining
substances and that different
objects can be made by combining
different materials
How Living Things Interact with
Their Environment: Standard #2
(2) Knows that living things compete
in a climatic region with other
living things
Are you planning a school field trip to St. Augustine?
Why not have Ancient City Tours custom build your
itinerary? Contact
us for more information!
And don't forget to include the Spanish
Military Hospital Museum in your trip!
