SCIREL Crossword

2. a mask worn by doctors in medieval times resembling a beak, which stored medicinal herbs
4. a building where monks or nuns live under the authority of a Abbot or Abbess, which often included gardens of medicinal herbs
7. The process of looking at the urine of the patient to determine which of the four humors was unbalanced.
8. a disease that causes inflammation in the large intestine and caused debilitating diarrhea
10. a disease spread through rye
11. The deadliest plague, killing around one third of Europe's population
12. thought to have been caused by bad air, its name originating from the medieval Italian words for bad air. It is still common today and is spread by mosquitoes
14. a theory that 4 liquids in the body had to be balanced otherwise illness would occur
16. Greek physician, writer, and philosopher who developed the four humors theory
18. a disease with the symptoms of delirium and extreme sweating
20. the disease that vaccinations were created for. Many people without the disease were exposed to it purposefully as a prevention method

1. a practice of removing blood to balance the four humors through small knives or leeches
3. a term that is a common nickname for ergotism
5. scholar credited as the first person to tell the difference between smallpox and measles and objected the 'four humors' theory by saying that diet and hygiene played a role in recovering from sickness
6. a doctor in a monastery
9. a jug and sink used to wash people faces and hands in the morning for hygenic purposes
13. a disease considered a punishment for sin and many people condemned people with this disease from society
15. similar to smallpox, but does not cause scars when the rash is healed
17. a mental illness where one believes that they are a werewolf – in medieval times people with this illness were burned alive.
19. The superior in a community of nuns, people who ruled a monastery