A
When additional ingredients were added to food to bulk it out, without being advertised that way.
A place elderly people and poorer people could seek shelter and care.
Medicines that are used in surgery to reduce pain by creating a loss of consciousness and/or feeling.
Something that slows and stops germs from spreading and growing.
When a space is made completely clean and sterile.
The study of the planets and the stars and how they relate to us.
B
An early surgeon who would cut people's hair and also carry out medical procedures like bloodletting.
The way a medical professional treats a patient.
A liquid produced by the liver that is usually yellow-green.
When the blood of a patient would be drained to try and treat their illness.
When donor blood is given to a patient, usually because they've experienced blood loss.
The name given to the swellings people developed when they caught bubonic plague.
A type of plague named after the swellings people developed when they caught it, known as buboes.
C
The method of sealing a wound with a heated piece of iron.
A place where human waste was disposed of, usually in the form of a big pit in the ground.
When a bone breaks and breaks through the skin, creating an open wound.
Known as a CT scan, a scan that take lots of X-ray images from different angles to create a cross-section of a particular area.
A water fountain.
A French phrase that translates to 'sanitary cordon', meaning a boundary created to stop people leaving or entering a place to prevent the spread of disease.
An organisation or group who took responsibility for a town and its laws.
D
Cutting open a body in order to learn about how it works.
A heap of waste.
E
Made of a tiny camera attached to the end of a long tube, endoscopes help doctors see into the body without needing to perform surgery.
When a disease affects lots of people in a single area, like a region or a country.
F
When there is not enough food so people starve, become ill and might even die.
A fistula is an opening or swelling that has developed in the body.
G
The study of genes and how living things pass characteristics on through the generations.
The idea that germs cause decay and disease and title of Louis Pasteur's book.
A person who cleaned out latrines, cesspits and cesspools.
H
Based on Hippocrates' teachings, all new doctors still take the Hippocratic Oath, promising to try their best and act responsibly as a doctor.
I
To be protected from a certain disease or illness.
A space inside a medieval monastery that was used for treating the sick and providing shelter for the poor.
L
A French phrase that translates to 'leave alone', meaning the idea that governments shouldn't get involved in decisions about issues like health.
A non-flushing toilet, usually in the form of a hole in the ground.
A term used in medieval times to refer to somebody who had leprosy.
A disease that was common in the medieval era and affected the skin and nervous system.
A method for prevent blood loss by tying off wounds.
M
Known as an MRI, a scan that creates detailed images of tissues and organs through radio waves using powerful magnets.
The theory that illnesses were spread through bad smells in the air.
A micro-organism, like a germ or virus.
A medieval rubbish heap where households would dispose of waste.
A space where communities of monks would live, work and pray.
N
Men who would collect sewage to sell to farmers during the Industrial period.
P
When a disease affects people globally across different areas.
A place where people with infectious diseases were sent to try and prevent them spreading during the Renaissance.
Mucus that can build up in your body, especially when you have a cold.
A garden dedicated to growing medicinal herbs and plants.
Another term for a doctor.
A type of plague spread through coughing and sneezing.
Known as a PET scan, a scan that is carried out on patients who are injected with a tracing dye into their bloodstream before being scanned, so doctors can gain a clear 3D colour image of tissues and bones.
A thick soup that was popular in the medieval period.
Q
When people with a disease (e.g. the plague) are forced to stay inside their home and prevented from travelling.
R
Conditions related to breathing.
A bone disease caused by a lack of Vitamin D.
S
People who would collect waste from outside households to sell on during the Renaissance.
People who were ordered by the government to identify people who had caught the plague during the Great Plague.
The phrase used to describe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers during WWI.
A technique in surgery when healthy skin is transplanted to a damaged area of skin.
T
The supernatural refers to anything that can't be explained or backed up by science, like magic or witchcraft.
The Zodiac is a group of constellations that can be matched up to the month you were born to give you your star sign.
V
When a weakened version of a disease or virus is injected into a person to make them immune from catching it in future.
W
People who were ordered by the government to guard houses containing people who had the plague during the Great Plague.
A person who would sell buckets of water and take them door to door in the Renaissance.
