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Bloodletting | The drawing of blood from a patient by a doctor. |
Dissection | Cutting open a body to examine its internal structure |
Four Humours | A theory that developed in Ancient Greece to explain illness due to an imbalance of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile in the body |
Medieval | A name for the 'Middle Ages', the period between the Ancient World (which ended when the Romans left Britain) and the Renaissance of the 16th and 17th centuries |
Physician | A trained doctor |
Public Health | A standard of living conditions and general health of the people |
Purging | Getting rid of bad or excess Humours by making someone sick |
Society | The way a group of people links together in some common ways |
Supernatural | Forces outside nature that some people believe can effect events, for example, God, charms, and luck, witchcraft or astrology |
Surgeon | Someone who deals with wounds or with treatment that involves cutting the body |
Anatomy | The structure of the human body for example bones, nerves or muscles |
Apothecary | A person who made medicines and ointments using ingredients such as herbs and spices |
Black Death | A highly infectious disease that spread throughout Europe in the mid-14th century |
Physiology | The way organs function within the body, for example, the work of the heart, liver and kidneys |
Reformation | A period of challenge and divisions within the Christian church |
Renaissance | A period in the 16th and 17th centuries when people thought they were reviving Ancient Greek and Roman culture but also made new discoveries (1500-1750) |
Royal Society | A group set up in 1660 to enable educated people to discuss scientific ideas |
Epidemic | A severe outbreak of an infectious disease |
Industrial | Connected to industry and manufacturing |
Industrial Revolution | The period 1750-1900 when there were rapid changes in the way work and industry was organised |
Inoculation | A way of giving a patient a mild dose of an illness so that the body builds up its immunity |
Miasma | The theory that disease is caused by poisonous vapours in the air |
Spontaneous Generation | The idea that rubbish or decaying material creates microbes |
Vaccination | A safe way of stimulating the body's immune system against a particular disease |
Antibiotics | Drugs that stop infectious disease caused by bacteria |
Consultant | A doctor specialising in a specific disease or part of the body; usually based in hospital |
Crystallography | Using radiation to take a high-power X-ray photograph |
DNA | The abbreviation for Deoxyribonucleic Acid, which contains the genetic instructions for every cell in your body |
General Practitioner (GP) | A doctor who works in a practice dealing directly with public |
Genetics | The study of genes and inherited characteristics |
Immunisation | The process of making someone immune to a disease, including inoculation and vaccination |
Magic Bullet | A chemical drug that kills the microbes causing a specific disease without harming the rest of the body |
National Health Service (NHS) | An organisation set up by the government in 1948 to give free heath care to all |
Pharmaceutical Industry | The business of manufacturing medicinal drugs: a chemist's shop |
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