Across
- 2. Engineer who improved London's sewers in 1858
- 3. 19th-century term for 'bad air' thought to cause disease
- 5. Disease spread by contaminated water, common in 1800s Britain
- 9. Doctor who discovered chloroform anaesthetic
- 10. Scientist who discovered penicillin
- 11. Doctor who pioneered vaccination against smallpox
- 15. First major hospital for sick children in London (1852)
- 16. Surgeon who revived ligature method in surgery
- 17. Scientist who developed Germ Theory
- 22. Nurse famous for work during Crimean War
- 24. First widely-used antibiotic
- 25. 1911 Act gave workers this type of medical support
Down
- 1. 1853 Act made this compulsory for smallpox
- 4. Doctor who mapped cholera outbreaks in London
- 6. Scientist who discovered x-rays
- 7. Introduced antiseptic surgery with carbolic acid
- 8. Disease causing severe diarrhoea
- 12. Gas used as anaesthetic before chloroform
- 13. Woman who founded medical school for women
- 14. Scientist who identified bacteria for tuberculosis
- 18. 1848 Act improved public __ in Britain
- 19. Scientist who discovered streptomycin
- 20. Process preventing infection during surgery
- 21. Free health service launched in 1948
- 23. War leading to improvements in nursing (1853-1856)