The American Revolutionary War Project: Disease

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Across
  1. 2. a substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen, typically prepared from an inactivated or weakened form of the causative agent or from its constituents or products.
  2. 5. Who mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777
  3. 7. conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness.
  4. 10. Posed a big threat to the colonial soldiers given the close-quarters environments of army encampments
  5. 11. Ahe state of being ill
Down
  1. 1. These people tried to help the sick people were influenced by ancient medical thought, and with the best intentions, treated diseases with bleedings, leeches and purges
  2. 3. This Disease made a great impact on the war
  3. 4. Likely to spread infection
  4. 6. An unexpected, often sudden, increase of a specific illness within a community or region that had cholera, yellow fever, plague, and influenza in the war
  5. 8. The close-quarters environments that the soldiers had to stay in
  6. 9. Smallpox crippled the forces in Canada, preventing them from launching an attack in this place in late 1775