| Word |
Meaning |
| Abattoir |
Another name for a slaughterhouse |
| Affliction |
The cause of suffering or unhappiness |
| Alms |
Charitable donations of money |
| Anaesthesia |
A loss of feeling or sensation |
| Ancestors |
A person from whom we are directly descended. Relatives who were alive before us. |
| Antibiotics |
Chemical substances produced by micro-organisms such as fungi which has the power to prevent the growth of bacteria |
| Consumption |
This is another name for Tuberculosis affecting the lungs |
| Contagious |
When a disease can be passed from one individual to the next |
| Decree |
A law, order or judgement made by someone in authority |
| Dedication |
To devote to a special purpose often used in a religious sense to God |
| Dehydration |
To loose water or bodily fluids |
| Effluent |
A liquid which is discharged as a waste product, for example sewage |
| Epidemic |
A disease which spreads rapidly through a community |
| Eradication |
To get rid of, to stamp out |
| Foundation |
To begin, or to start off |
| Immunity |
The ability to resist disease |
| Incubation |
The time a disease takes to first show its appearance after exposure to the disease |
| Institution |
An organisation or establishment set up for a particular purpose |
| Legislation |
The act of making laws, the creation of a legal document |
| Moral |
The distinction between good and evil |
| Mutilation |
To damage or maim the body |
| Lazar |
Relating to Lazarus, who was a Leper |
| Orthopaedic |
The branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair of bones and joints |
| Ostracised |
To exclude or banish someone |
| Purgatory |
A place of suffering or torment. This is where the soul was believed to go to pay for sins committed during life |
| Remedies |
A medicine or potion which was used to cure an affliction |
| Sanatorium |
An institution for the care of the chronically sick |
| Sanitation |
Cleanand hygienic conditions that help prevent disease through services such as garbage collection and wastewater disposal. |
| Segregation |
A means of separating people |
| Thoracic |
Relating to the thorax, the chest area of the body |
| Transmitted |
A disease which has been passed on |
| Vaccination |
The introduction into the skin, of the cowpox virus, to induce immunity against smallpox |
| Variolation |
To infect with a minute amount of the smallpox virus |
| Victim |
A person who suffers some sort of harm |
