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| Question | Answer |
| What is bile? | A thick bitter fluid produces by the liver- once thought to be part of the four humours |
| What is Public Health? | The standard living conditions and general health of the people |
| What was the highly infectious disease that spread throughout Europe in the mid-14th century? | The black death |
| What is bloodletting? | The drawing of blood from a patient by a Doctor |
| What is a public health provision? | The provision of clean water, sewers and health care to the whole ccommunity |
| What do you call getting rid of excess fluid by making someone sick or giving them diarrhoea ? | Purging |
| What do you call the isolation of people with an infectious disease, to try and stop the spreading of the disease? | Quarantine |
| What do you call the use of radiation in medicine usually to attack cancer? | Radiotherapy |
| What do you call the group set up in 1660 to enable educated people to discuss scientific ideas? | The Royal Society |
| What is sepsis? | A condition in which bacteria affect the flesh usually leading to infection and decaying flesh |
| What was spontaneous generation? | The idea that rubbish and decaying materials created microbes |
| What is a Tourniquet? | Something you tie around a part of the body to put pressure on blood vessels to stop the loss of blood |
| What is a body snatcher? | A person who used to obtain dead bodies illegally and sell them to medical schools for dissection |
| What do you call the procedure of giving blood from a donor to a patient? | A transfusion |
| What is a by-law? | A law made by a town's local authority that affects only that town |
| What do you call the technique that uses heat to seal blood vessels and stop bleeding? | Cautery |
| What is a vaccination? | A safe way of stimulating the body's immune system against a particular disease |
| What is a Welfare State? | The coordination and provision by the government of all matters affecting the health of the people |
| What do you call a pit used for the disposal of liquid waste and sewage? | Cesspit |
| What do you call the thread like structures found in most living cells that carry genetic information? | Chromosones |
| What is cloning? | Using cells from one organism to make another identical organism |
| What is crystallography? | Using radiation to take a high-power X-ray photograph |
| What does ague mean? | A term for illness that involves fever and fits of shivering |
| What do you call a house founded by charity offering accommodation for the poor? | Almshouse |
| What is alternative medicine? | Medicine that uses herbs and other natural remedies. Also therapies such as acupuncture instead of drugs. |
| What is the technical name for cutting off a limb? | Amputation |
| What is dissection? | Cutting open a body to examine its internal structure |
| What do you call a severe outbreak of an infectious disease? | An epidemic |
| What are genetics? | The study of genes and inherited characteristics |
| What is an anaesthetic? | A substance that affects your nervous system so that you are less aware of sensation and don't feel pain |
| What do you call the scientific study of the body, bones and muscles? | Anatomy |
| What are anti-biotics? | Drugs that stop infections caused by bacteria |
| What are antibodies? | Special cells in your body that fight infection and disease |
| What is inoculation? | A way of giving the patient a mild dose of an illness so their body can build up and immunity |
| What do you call something that fights against sepsis and the microbes that create infection? | Antiseptic |
| What is Laissez-faire? | The government should not interfere with industry and private business...like medicine |
| What is an apothecary? | A person who made medicines and ointments using ingredients such as herbs and spices |
| What would you call a thread tied around a blood vessel to stop the bleeding? | Ligature |
| What do you call the tube-shaped sac attached to the large intestine; appendicitis occurs when it is inflamed? | Appendix |
| What is a magic bullet? | A chemical drug that kills the microbes causing a specific disease without harming the rest of the body |
| What is an artery? | A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to all parts of the body |
| What do you call the theory that stated that bad air caused disease? | Miasma |
| What does aseptic mean? | Sterile; free from microbes that cause infection |
| What is astrology? | The study of stars and planets and how they are thought to affect humans and nature |
| What is patent medicine? | A mixture that has been created by one person or company and is sold under a particular brand name |
| What do you call an old type of hospital for the mentally ill? | An asylum |
| What is physiology? | The way organs function within the body |
| What are bacteria? | Micro-organisms that live in soil,water,plants and animals that can cause dieases |
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