Doctors and Medicine in Medieval Europe
Across
- 6. The humor of the lungs
- 8. A flexible wire saw used by surgeons for bone cutting
- 12. The idea that god provided some substances to alleviate illness.
- 16. Avicenna's encyclopedia translating Greek, Indian, and Muslim medical texts.
- 19. What was the disease that killed 60% of Europe?
- 20. Animal used for bloodletting.
- 21. Monastic order often involved in healing the sick and dying.
- 22. The wealthy and the clergy that formed a guild.
Down
- 1. Idea that god sent illness and healing as punishment.
- 2. A mythic alchemical substance meant to grant immortality.
- 3. The theory that sicknesses cause by in-balance in four principle fluids.
- 4. An old term for pharmacist.
- 5. The medical practice of drilling a hole in the head to alleviate mental illnesses.
- 7. A smell that makes you sick.
- 9. Psuedo-science that claimed that alignment of the stars could diagnose illness.
- 10. The humor of the head.
- 11. Plant scienists.
- 13. The idea that some diseases were caused by getting shot by invisible elves.
- 14. A medical book written by Hildegard of Bingen.
- 15. The humor of the Gall Bladder.
- 17. The humor of the spleen.
- 18. Herbal remedies.