Medicine Through Time

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Across
  1. 2. Places of care where prayer and herbs worked side by side
  2. 4. Press Machine that spread medical knowledge faster than ever before
  3. 8. Theory Explanation that replaced bad smells with microbes
  4. 9. Harvey Man who proved blood travelled rather than drifted
  5. 12. Pain removed, and surgery suddenly became possible
  6. 13. Opening the body to challenge ancient mistakes
  7. 14. Jenner Country doctor who used cowpox to outwit smallpox
  8. 15. Stars consulted as if the sky had a medical degree
  9. 17. Healing by removal, though often nearer harming
  10. 19. Simpson Doctor who made chloroform famous in 1847
  11. 22. Remedies Nature’s pharmacy, sometimes useful, often hopeful
  12. 25. Isolation used before infection was properly understood
  13. 28. Mould that became medicine and changed survival rates
  14. 29. Chemicals that fought infection before aseptic surgery took over
Down
  1. 1. Prevention by exposure, pioneered before science fully explained it
  2. 3. Roman doctor whose writings outlived their accuracy
  3. 5. Public Health Clean water and sewers before germs were even imagined
  4. 6. Images of the inside without the knife doing the exploring
  5. 7. Ancient authority whose ideas shaped medicine for centuries
  6. 10. of Opposites Treatment by reversing symptoms rather than understanding causes
  7. 11. Bad air blamed when no one knew better
  8. 16. Lister Surgeon who cleaned wounds and shocked old habits
  9. 18. Action Intervention that usually arrived only when crisis forced it
  10. 20. Lens that revealed a hidden world medicine had missed
  11. 21. Anatomist who trusted bodies more than books
  12. 23. Causes Illness explained as punishment rather than pathology
  13. 24. Four liquids that needed balance to avoid disaster
  14. 26. Death Catastrophe that killed rapidly and explained very little
  15. 27. Scientist who buried spontaneous generation with experiments
  16. 30. Institution that preserved learning while slowing challenge