Medicine through Time Revision

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Across
  1. 3. Free from germs.
  2. 4. Give the patient a small dose of a disease in the hope of preventing worse disease.
  3. 8. A person who sold drugs or medicine.
  4. 12. A substance that doctors use to stop the patient feeling pain during an operation.
  5. 15. HUMOURS Medieval doctors believed that these were the main fluids in the body.
  6. 16. GENERATION The idea that germs pop into existence from the air around us.
  7. 17. DEATH A plague that occurred in Europe around 1346.
  8. 19. A disease that spreads over a large area and affects many people at the same time
  9. 21. Making someone vomit, usually to balance the four humours.
  10. 22. Something that kills bacteria or stops them from growing.
  11. 23. Removing blood from the patient to balance the four humours.
Down
  1. 1. The process of teaching someone’s immune system to fight a particular disease. From the Latin word for cow.
  2. 2. The study of the bodies of people and other animals.
  3. 5. FAIRE A French term meaning “leave alone”, usually applied to a system of government.
  4. 6. A period of learning and scientific advancement. Based on the French word for “rebirth”.
  5. 7. Giving someone blood.
  6. 9. Something that exists beyond the world we understand – “more than natural”.
  7. 10. Making something immune to disease, for example by vaccination.
  8. 11. Cutting up bodies to see how they work.
  9. 13. “Bad air”
  10. 14. HEALTH The health of the population as a whole.
  11. 18. Something used to tie off a wound.
  12. 20. The study of the stars and planets.