Doctors and Medicine in the Middle Ages

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Across
  1. 4. these creatures were used to debride necrotized skin
  2. 5. lung problems were treated using a medicine using ? and comfrey
  3. 7. stomach pains and what else was treated with wormwood, balm and mint
  4. 11. this sweet food source was used as an antibacterial to prevent infection.
  5. 13. one of the places where the sick went to obtain healing herbs
  6. 15. Surgeons would have relied on this for anesthesia
  7. 16. according to the ? the Black Death was Gods punishment for sinfulness of human kind
  8. 17. what social class were doctors in the middle ages generally from
  9. 19. which herb was used to reduce fevers
  10. 21. this gum-resin was used as an antiseptic on wounds
  11. 22. vinegar was used a ? agent
  12. 23. how many million people were killed in Europe as a result of the Black Death
  13. 26. a practice doctors used to treat the Black Death
Down
  1. 1. these people produced books on herbal remedies
  2. 2. this was the most common form of surgery
  3. 3. what ? plague was also known as the Black Death
  4. 6. this was used to douse wounds as a form of antiseptic
  5. 8. it was believed the cause of most diseases was this
  6. 9. what was the equivalent of our modern pharmacists
  7. 10. a darkened room provided with soft furnishings
  8. 12. this disease was treated by taking pus or powdered scabs from patients with a mild case of the disease and inserting them into the skin or nose of susceptible, healthy people.
  9. 14. these were used to treat everything from headaches, ear infections and hemorrhoids
  10. 18. common diseases included ?, malaria, flu, typhoid, smallpox and leprosy
  11. 20. headaches and aching joints were treated using herbs such as lavender, sage, hay and what sweet smelling plant
  12. 24. the name of the procedure of perforating the skull to relieve pressure on the brain
  13. 25. The ? death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history