The Medical Renaissance In England 1500-1700

Question 1

Secular

Answer 1

Not religious or in any way connected with spiritual/supernatural belief

Question 2

Alchemy

Answer 2

early form of chemistry. Making one material into another

Question 3

Pneuma

Answer 3

Means ‘breath of life’. Galen thought it was both the air that you breathe and your life force or soul

Question 4

Quack doctor

Answer 4

Someone who doesn’t have any medic qualifications however still sells their service as a doctor

Question 5

Microbes

Answer 5

A living organism that is too small to see without a microscope

Question 6

Decaying matter

Answer 6

Material including vegetables and animals that is dead and rotting

Question 7

Organic

Answer 7

Something living or has once been alive

Question 8

Bacteriology.

Answer 8

Study of bacteria

Question 9

Aseptic surgery

Answer 9

Surgery where Microbes are prevented from getting into a wound in the first place, as opposed to being killed off with an antiseptic

Question 10

Inoculate

Answer 10

Act of deliberately infecting oneself with disease to help prevent severe cases in the future

Question 11

Cowpox

Answer 11

Disease causing red blisters on skin, similar to small pox. Transmitted from cows to humans

Question 12

Public vaccinators

Answer 12

Doctors payed to vaccinate others against small pox

Question 13

Antibodies

Answer 13

Particles in the body that identify and help to remove germs. The body creates them when first encounters the germ, so that it can fight off the same disease more easily if it comes back

Question 14

Dehydrated

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When the body doesn’t have enough water to allow the organs to function properly

Question 15

Cesspit

Answer 15

Pit for storing sewage or waste

Question 16

Hereditary disease

Answer 16

Disease passed from parent to child or other descendants.

Question 17

DNA

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Carries genetic information from one living thing to another

Question 18

Genome

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The complete set of DNA containing all the information to build a particular organism

Question 19

Haemophilia

Answer 19

Genetic disease passed from parent to child that stops blood from clotting

Question 20

Mastectomy

Answer 20

Surgery during which someone had one or both of their breasts removed

Question 21

MRSA

Answer 21

A strain of drug resistant bacteria that is particularly resistant to antibiotics