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- 1'The Black Death'A widespread epidemic of bubonic plague that occurred in several outbreaks between 1347 and 1400.
- 2HippocratesBorn in 406 BC, Hippocrates was the first physician to treat and regard the body as a whole. He based his thinking and writing around the theory of the four humours.
- 3GalenBorn in A.D 130, Galen studied medicine in Egypt. His ideas of medicine became accepted in Europe as fact during the middle ages.
- 4AlchemyThis was a form of chemistry and questionable philosophy practised during the Middle Ages, concerned with finding an 'Elixir for Life'.
- 5SoothsayersThe local 'wise women' who built up knowledge over generations of how treat disease and illness.
- 6ApothecaryGenerally, monks who prepared and sold medicines and herbal remedies to the sick.
- 7Barber-surgeonThese were medical practitioners during the medieval era.
- 8BloodlettingA common form of treatment regarding disease or illness, involving the withdrawal of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease.
- 9John SnowSnow illustrated the link between cholera deaths and different sources of water quality in London during the 19th century.
- 10SmallpoxAn acute contagious disease that is caused by the variola virus.
- 11InoculationInvolves introducing a weaker form of a disease into a person's body so they develop resistance against stronger strains of the disease.
- 12Edward JennerA British scientist who developed a cure for smallpox.
- 13Royal SocietyThis is a society through which scientific investigation is promoted. It was founded in 1660.
- 14MMRMeasles, mumps and rubella.
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