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Notes (iii) surgeons.
(iv) paracelcus.
(g) Use ‘battle’ and ‘prejudice’ as verbs in two different sentences.

(h) Find words from the passage which mean the opposite of the following :
(i) shameful (para 2)
(ii) old (para 3)
Answers
(a) It was the discovery of microbes which influenced surgery most. It made the surgery
safe. Now they knew that the microbes were responsible for the disease called hospitalism.

(b) Before this discovery, the surgery was very unsafe. Although great advances had been
made in this field, the wounds developed some or the other disease and degenerated. As
a result the patients died.
(c) The authorities closed the hospitals for some time. They thought that the closing of the
hospitals would mean the wiping off, of the disease. However, the disease relapsed after
a short lapse.

(d) The disease was called hospitalism. It was so because it was found mostly in cases of
operations performed in hospitals.
(e) (i) Which discovery is being spoken of here ?
(ii) What was the new idea ?

(f) (A) (iii) made the wounds inflamed causing the death of the patients.
(B) (iii) surgeons.
(g) (i) battle : He battled hard and defeated the enemy
(ii) prejudice : The trial has been prejudiced by the press coverage.
(h) (i) spectacular (ii) original.

Task Differentiate seen and unseen passages.

7.2 Seen Passage

PASSAGE 1
Read the following paragraph and answer the questions given below :
The last one of this long procession of silent men and women was a little wizened old man.
Even he carried a load of two baskets, slung on a pole on his shoulder, the same load of a
folded quilt, a cauldron. But there was only one cauldron. In the other basket it seemed there
was a quilt, extremely ragged and patched, but clean still. Although the load was light, it was
too much for the old man. It was evident that in usual times he would be beyond the age of
work, and was perhaps unaccustomed to such labour in recent years. His breath whistled as
he staggered along, and he strained his eyes to watch those who were ahead of him lest he
be left behind, and his old wrinkled face was set in a sort of gasping agony.

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