Eduqas GCSE History · C100
Component 2
Revise: Preventing Illness and DiseaseAlchemy offered another possible route to protection. Alchemists searched for an elixir, a supposedly magical liquid that would prolong life indefinitely, and for a medicine that could cure any disease. These aims were not achieved.
- Revise: Advances in Medical Knowledge
An early tradition of experimenting with substances, including attempts to turn ordinary metals into gold and discover an elixir of life.