Health and The People - 17th Century Onwards...

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Across
  1. 6. – Method used during the Great Plague where infected houses were locked and guarded.
  2. 8. – Chemical used by Joseph Lister to prevent infection in surgery.
  3. 12. – Greenlees, the boy whose fractured leg Joseph Lister treated successfully using carbolic acid bandages.
  4. 13. – Anaesthetic discovered by James Simpson in 1847.
  5. 15. – Earlier method where smallpox material was scratched into the skin to give immunity.
Down
  1. 1. - gas experimented with as an early anaesthetic.
  2. 2. – Preserved body parts and organisms collected by John Hunter to study anatomy and disease.
  3. 3. – System where local people donated money together to fund new hospitals.
  4. 4. – One important role of the Royal College of Surgeons was setting rules for surgical training and practice.
  5. 5. – Travelling seller who claimed to have miracle cures but had no real medical training.
  6. 7. – Scientist who proved microbes cause disease through Germ Theory.
  7. 9. – A major problem with new drugs and anaesthetics was determining the correct amount to give patients safely.
  8. 10. – Jenner’s method of preventing smallpox using cowpox.
  9. 11. – Treatment used to remove harmful substances from the body in order to restore health.
  10. 14. – Animals whose fleas actually spread the plague in 1665.