Glossary

What is bile?

What is Public Health?

What was the highly infectious disease that spread throughout Europe in the mid-14th century?

What is bloodletting?

What is a public health provision?

What do you call getting rid of excess fluid by making someone sick or giving them diarrhoea ?

What do you call the isolation of people with an infectious disease, to try and stop the spreading of the disease?

What do you call the use of radiation in medicine usually to attack cancer?

What do you call the group set up in 1660 to enable educated people to discuss scientific ideas?

What is sepsis?

What was spontaneous generation?

What is a Tourniquet?

What is a body snatcher?

What do you call the procedure of giving blood from a donor to a patient?

What is a by-law?

What do you call the technique that uses heat to seal blood vessels and stop bleeding?

What is a vaccination?

What is a Welfare State?

What do you call a pit used for the disposal of liquid waste and sewage?

What do you call the thread like structures found in most living cells that carry genetic information?

What is cloning?

What is crystallography?

What does ague mean?

What do you call a house founded by charity offering accommodation for the poor?

What is alternative medicine?

What is the technical name for cutting off a limb?

What is dissection?

What do you call a severe outbreak of an infectious disease?

What are genetics?

What is an anaesthetic?

What do you call the scientific study of the body, bones and muscles?

What are anti-biotics?

What are antibodies?

What is inoculation?

What do you call something that fights against sepsis and the microbes that create infection?

What is Laissez-faire?

What is an apothecary?

What would you call a thread tied around a blood vessel to stop the bleeding?

What do you call the tube-shaped sac attached to the large intestine; appendicitis occurs when it is inflamed?

What is a magic bullet?

What is an artery?

What do you call the theory that stated that bad air caused disease?

What does aseptic mean?

What is astrology?

What is patent medicine?

What do you call an old type of hospital for the mentally ill?

What is physiology?

What are bacteria?