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| Question | Answer |
| ALMSHOUSE | A house founded by charity, offering accommodation to the poor. |
| ANAESTHETIC | A substance that induces insensitivity to pain. |
| ANATOMY | The branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals and other living organisms. |
| ANTIBIOTICS | A medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys micro-organisms. |
| ANTISEPTIC | Preventing the growth of disease - causing micro-organisms. |
| APOTHECARY | A person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs. |
| ASEPTIC | Free from contamination caused by micro-organisms. Surgically sterile or sterilized. |
| BLACK DEATH | Devastating pandemic in history. 75-200 million deaths. 1346-53 |
| BLOODLETTING | The surgical removal of some of a patients blood for therapeutic purposes. |
| CAUTERY | An instrument or a caustic substance used for cauterizing. |
| DISSECTION | The action of dissecting a body or plant to study its internal parts. |
| DNA | A self replicating material which is present in all living organisms. Carrier of genetic information. |
| FLAGELLANTS | A person who subjects themselves or others to flogging as a religious discipline. |
| FOUR HUMOURS | Hippocrate's theory. Blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. It has an influence on the body and emotions. |
| HYGIENE | Conditions or practises conductive to maintaining health and preventing disease. |
| IMMUNISATION | An individuals immune system becomes fortified against an agent. |
| INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
| INOCULATION | The action of being vaccinated. |
| LAISSEZ FAIRE | The policy of leaving things to take their own course, without interfering. |
| LIGATURE | A thing used for tying or bonding something tightly. |
| MAGIC BULLET | A medicine or other remedy with advanced or highly specific properties. |
| MIASMA | An unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapour. |
| MICROBES | A micro-organism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation. |
| NHS | The National Health Service. |
| PATENT MEDICINE | A property medicine made and marketed under a patent and available without prescription. |
| PHARMACY | A shop or hospital dispensary where medicinal drugs are sold. |
| PHYSIOLOGY | The branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of living organisms. |
| PLASTIC SURGERY | The process of reconstructing or repairing parts of the body. |
| PUBLIC HEALTH | The health of the population as a whole, especially as monitored, regulated and promoted. |
| PURGING | Rid (someone) of an unwanted feeling, memory or condition. |
| RENAISSANCE | 14th-16th century. |
| SEPSIS | The presence in tissues of harmful bacteria and their toxins, typically through infection of a wound. |
| SEWER | An underground conduit for carrying off drainage water and waste matter. |
| SPONTANEOUS GENERATION | The supposed production of living organisms from non-living matter. |
| SUPERNATURAL | Manifestations of events considered to be of supernatural origin, such as ghosts. |
| SURGEON | A medical practitioner qualified to practice surgery. |
| TRANSFUSION | The act of transferring donated blood, blood products, or other fluid into the system. |
| VACCINATION | The administration of antigenic material to create a pathogen. |
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