"Charging your batteries", "Getting your beauty rest", "Hitting the hay".
What is sleep(ing)?
The disease that recently had an outbreak in B.C.
What is measles?
The first discovered antibiotic.
What is Penicillin?
A household plant that can treat burns but can also just be decorative (or make a really good drink).
What is Aloe Vera?
The full form of flu.
Influenza
Used in lots of basic cooking and can cure rashes.
What is Olive Oil?
One of the most famous outbreaks ever that affected people in Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa in the 1340s.
What was "The Black Death"?
The organ that was first transplanted.
What is the liver?
Commonly used to kill cancer cells using radiation therapy.
What is chemotherapy?
The medicine that was poisoned with cyanide in the 1980's in Chicago, causing 7 people to die.
What is Tylenol?
Doctors who work using personalized treatment plans and natural medicines.
What are Naturopathic doctors?
Very widespread through Canada and the U.S. in the 1930s to '50s, it "crippled" many children and some adults.
What is polio (infantile paralysis)?
Thought to be the most efficient way to rid somebody of a disease, this was drained from their body from ancient times to the 1800s.
What is blood(letting)?
A commonly used medicine used to treat headaches and fever (Hint: It starts with an "A").
What is Aspirin?
The animal that insulin is mostly taken from (to treat diabetes).
What are pigs?
Natural pain relievers produced by our bodies (they also make you happy).
What are endorphins?
An outbreak of this disease seemed to have a connection with homosexual activity.
What is AIDS?
A practice among ancient civilizations that involved the drilling of a hole in one's skull.
What was trepanning?
The full name for Tylenol.
What is Acetaminophen?
Causing vaccine-preventable diseases to resurge since a badly-studied study in the '90s.
What is anti-vax?
Google definition:
think deeply or focus one's mind for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation.
What is Meditation?
Brought over to Canada in the 1800s.
What is smallpox, influenza, tuberculosis, and measles?
America's first female doctor.
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
Nasopharyngitis, Rhinopharyngitis, Acute Coryza.
What is a cold?
Thought to be the worst clinical trial disaster ever.
What were The Elephant Man trials (TGN1412, Therumizalab)?