Medieval Europe's Doctors and Medicine
Across
- 2. This is the method of removing flesh from a dead body so that the bones could be transported back home.
- 6. A deadly plague that killed nearly 200 million people through bites from fleas, rats, and other infected animals.
- 7. This tool was used for making skin incisions and tissue dissections.
- 11. This person could cut hair and help people who could not get to the doctor.
- 13. This rodent was one of the major sickness causes.
- 15. A tool to help remove tumors.
- 16. This feeling was healed with sweet-smelling herbs such as rose, lavender, sage, and hay.
- 19. This chamber was a darkened room with soft cushions.
- 20. Another word for a scalpel.
Down
- 1. Doctors wore these to keep away the smells of decaying bodies and to not get the diseases that other people had.
- 3. This tool was used to deal with tissue and now is known for pulling out slivers.
- 4. For this they use drug-soaked sponges and oils.
- 5. This insect was one of the major causes of sickness.
- 8. A herb to treat fever.
- 9. To heal this they used wormwood, mint, and balm.
- 10. Peple that acted like doctors were called__________.
- 12. This person helps heal the sick.
- 14. These plants were used to heal many sicknesses.
- 17. These women would help birth a child if they couldn't make it to a doctor.
- 18. This tool is used for blood samples.