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Infection through time: Medical Quiz Crossword


 
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Across:
1 What form of treatment for tuberculosis used a certain type of light?
3 Which islands in the 18th and 19th century were the last place the leprosy disease was reported?
4 What was the main disease problem in Britain during the medieval period apart from the black death?
6 A doctor in Gloucestershire found that a certain type of people had a immunity to the small pox disease. Who were they?
7 What was the name of the man who first discovered a vaccine to smallpox.
9 What plant was given to sufferers of Tuberculosis to help them cough up blood?
10 Which Crusaders were thought to bring leprosy disease back to Britain during the medieval period.
12 Epidemics of the small pox virus plagued Britain and what other continent in the 20th century?
13 Scientists of the day believed two theories about the cause of cholera. One was bad air, what was the other theory?
14 A doctor in Gloucestershire found a vaccination to which disease in 1796?
16 Where did Agnes Hunt set up her home for children at the beginning of the 20th century?
17 How many different types of tuberculosis were there during the 17th century?
Down:
2 Cholera is an infection of what part of the body?
5 Lady Montague travelled with her husband the British ambassador to which country in 1717?
6 What the main way to contract the Tuberculosis disease in the 18th century?
8 What part of the body did the leprosy disease attack when it firsts infects a human?
9 What part of the body did the the bovine tuberculosis attack?
11 What month in 1832 did Cholera first break out in Shrewsbury?
15 What needed to be taken to find out if a patient had tuberculosis?
16 What gender was the child who was infected by smallpox as an experiment?

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