Greek and Roman
This Greek physician paved the way for a medicine based on observation rather than divine providence.
Who is Hippocrates?
This individual’s account of the Siege of Caffa is known for proliferating ideas about medieval biological warfare using plague corpses.
Who is Gabriel de’ Mussis?
This theory posited that disease was transmitted via noxious fumes and pestilential air prior to the discovery of microorganisms in mid-19th century.
What is Miasma Theory?
This is the only human causing disease to be declared eradicated by the World Health Organization.
What is Smallpox?
This was the name coined for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
What is the March of Dimes?
According to Thucydides, the Athenians had no chance at winning the Peloponnesian War against Sparta after the the plague killed this political leader.
Who is Pericles?
This type of plague is considered the most deadly and if left untreated is always fatal.
Septicemic plague
White southern farmers used arguments about this disease causing protozoan parasite to justify African enslavement.
What is Malaria causing plasmodium?
This Sister worked her entire life to promote her patient-centered treatment for rehabilitating paralyzed patients that differed from the conventional methods.
Who is Sister Elizabeth Kenny?
This movie depicts a zombie outbreak that does not destabilize society, but rather relegates the infected to the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic hierarchy.
The Antonine Plague is popularly known as the plague of this famous physician who personally attended to co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Who is Galen?
What is Genoa?
This street in London is where John Snow found the contaminated water pump spreading Cholera to unsuspecting individuals.
What is Broad Street?
Charles Rosenberg famously described a "true" epidemic as this thespian related term.
What is Dramaturgic?
Carmelita Torres protested against "disinfection" protocols at the Mexican-American border during a supposed outbreak of this disease.
What is Typhus?
These four fluids are the foundation of medical thought until the discovery of germ theory.
What are blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm?
This animal has been identified as the vector connecting the Justinian Plague lineage to the strain of Y.Pestis that kick started the 2nd Plague Pandemic (Black Death).
What is the marmot? (M. caudata)
Joseph Bayley buried thermometers to check the thermal differences at various depths around New York to prove that any "pestilential air" was caused by this instead.
What are cargo (sugar) ships from Havana?
The Smallpox Eradication Program was not approved until the deputy minister of health from this country brought a resolution to the World Health Assembly in 1958.
What is the USSR?
This location is where one Jewish community settled following the reconquista and found themselves the main broadcloth weavers of janissary uniforms for Suleiman the Magnificent.
Where is Salonica?
This virus is the likely cause for the Plague of Cyprian according to the most recent scholarship.
What is MARV (Marburg Virus)?
This Hong Kong district was the hardest hit during the 3rd Plague Pandemic.
What is Tai Ping Shan?
This was the frightening nickname given to the water of the Thames in the 1850s.
What is Monster Soup?
This doctor was the only physician in Boston to use variolation against Smallpox based on the statements from Onesimus and Cotton Mather.
Who is Zabdiel Boylston?
This location, now one of Manhattan’s most expensive neighborhoods, was where individuals went to flee a deadly outbreak of Yellow Fever.
Where is Greenwich Village?