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