Text Structures
The text structure of Tools of the Trade
What is informational text?
He called himself a guinea pig in a journal entry.
Who was Dr. Jesse Lazear?
The pump that was causing the Soho Cholera outbreak.
What is the Broad Street Pump?
He researched the Plague while running a cloth buisness.
Who was John Graunt?
Single-celled microscopic organism
What is bacteria?
The text structure that shows the steps John Snow took to understand Cholera.
What is process?
$100 at the time, but would equal $3,000 today.
How much money would people get for volunteering in the Yellow Fever Experiments?
He doubted John Snow's theories but helped him with his research.
Who was Henry Whitehead?
People believed this prevented plague and schoolboys were punished if they did not do it.
What is smoking tobacco?
Underground chamber built to hold sewage, usually from a house
What is a cesspool?
The text structure of "Addicted to Statistics" (pg. 31)
What is comparison?
An army nurse who wanted to help find a cure for yellow fever and agreed to be bitten by a mosquito.
Who was Clara Maass?
The method of going door to door to research an epidemic, made popular by John Snow.
What is the shoe-leather method?
What is 80,000?
The study of diseases, how they spread, and how they can be controlled
What is epidemiology?
The text structure used to show Goodwoman Phillips symptoms on page 12.
What is descriptive?
The temperature of Jame's fever when he had Yellow fever.
What is 39 celsius or 102 degrees?
The river that sewers emptied into and provided drinking water.
What is the River Thames?
This island has a few hundred cases of plague every year.
What is Madagascar?
A disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans or from humans to other animals
What is zoonosis?
A text structure we have not yet seen in the text.
What is argument?
The bacteria bred by Scott O'neill to fight Yellow Fever.
What is Wolbachia?
The woman with Cholera outside of Soho
Who was Susannah Eley?
The name of the bacteria isolated by Alexander Yersin believed to cause the plague.
What is Yersinia pestis?
Drug derived from opium, formerly used to treat sickness and sedate patients
What is laudanum?