1.112 Hippocrates

Question 1

When was Hippocrates born and where did he live? (1)

Answer 1

460 BC in Ancient Greece

Question 2

What did Hippocrates advocate? (1)

Answer 2

Using natural treatments to treat diseases

Question 3

Hippocrates’ theories about medicine (3)

Answer 3

• The Four Humours
• Clinical Observation
• The Hippocratic Oath

Question 4

What did Hippocrates’ idea about Clinical Observation include?

Answer 4

A doctor being using observation and logic whilst monitoring and examining their patients to deduce what was wrong and diagnose the persons illness or disease

Question 5

What is the Hippocratic Oath and who is it said by? (2)

Answer 5

• Doctors

- An oath which binds them to keep a set of ethical standards to treat their patients well

Question 6

What was the theory of The Four Humours? (1)

Answer 6

Ancient Greeks believed that a person needed to have balanced humours

Question 7

What happened when The Four Humours were out of balance? (1)

Answer 7

People got diseases if they has too much or too little of a humour

Question 8

What were The Four Humours? (4)

Answer 8

• Phlegm
• Black Bile
• Yellow Bile
• Blood

Question 9

What season and element was phlegm associated with? (2)

Answer 9

• Winter

- Water

Question 10

Where did the Ancient Greeks believe that Phlegm was produced? (2)

Answer 10

In the:

• Brain
• Lungs

Question 11

What was phlegm considered to be? (2)

Answer 11

• Cold

- Wet

Question 12

How did doctors recommend treating an imbalance of phlegm? (2)

Answer 12

• Breathing in steam

- Eating vegetables filled with water

Question 13

What season and element was blood related to? (2)

Answer 13

• Spring

- Air

Question 14

Where did the Ancient Greeks believe blood was produced? (1)

Answer 14

In the liver

Question 15

What was blood considered to be? (2)

Answer 15

• Hot

- Wet

Question 16

To remedy a blood imbalance, doctors used/suggested? (3)

Answer 16

• Bloodletting
• Eating red meat
• Drinking red wine

Question 17

What season and element was yellow bile related to?

Answer 17

• Summer

- Fire

Question 18

Where did the Ancient Greeks believe yellow bile was produced? (1)

Answer 18

In the spleen

Question 19

What was yellow bile considered to be? (2)

Answer 19

• Hot

- Dry

Question 20

To remedy a yellow bile imbalance, doctors used/suggested?

Answer 20

• Throwing up

- Changing their diet

Question 21

What season and element was black bile related to? (2)

Answer 21

• Autumn

- Earth

Question 22

Where did the Ancient Greeks believe black bile was produced? (1)

Answer 22

In the Gallbladder

Question 23

What was black bile considered to be?

Answer 23

• Cold

- Dry

Question 24

To remedy a black bile imbalance, doctors used/suggested?

Answer 24

• Eating more vegetables

- Laxatives

Question 25

Hippocrates thought that the best way to remedy an imbalance of The Four Humours was to (2) and what was this similar to?

Answer 25

• Bleeding and purging
• This is similar to the purging, blood-letting and vomiting that the Ancient Egyptians used to unblock the body’s channels