Early Modern / Victorian Medicine Revision

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Across
  1. 4. Name given to Edward Jenner's invention for protecting people against disease
  2. 6. Word meaning that a disease has been completely wiped out
  3. 7. Highly infectious disease that killed up to 30% of those who caught it
  4. 8. Used as pain relief for operations before anaesthetics
  5. 12. Occupation of Sarah Nelmes, one of the characters in the smallpox story
  6. 14. Country that the idea of inoculation first came to Britain from
  7. 15. Doctor who first correctly calculated the correct doses for Chloroform
  8. 16. Sometimes people sang these to try and ignore the pain of an operation
  9. 17. Before anaesthetics, this would be a common cause of death during an operation
Down
  1. 1. Surname of Humphrey, who discovered Nitrous Oxide along with Thomas Beddoes
  2. 2. Surname of doctor who first found a cure for smallpox
  3. 3. Giving someone a small dose of a disease in order to build up immunity
  4. 5. Anaestehtic first discovered by James Simpson in 1847
  5. 9. First British surgeon to use Ether as an anaesthetic
  6. 10. Name given to an unqualified doctor who offered fake cures
  7. 11. A dose of anaesthetic that could kill someone might be described as this
  8. 13. Anaesthetic discovered by William Clark in 1842
  9. 18. The Latin word 'vacca' means this, which put some people off vaccinations