Ancient And Medieval

Question 1

Who developed the Theory of the Four Humours

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

What did the Greeks consider to be a healthy body?

Answer 2

A balanced body

Question 3

How did Hippocrates suggest the Greek doctors cure their patients?

Answer 3

Clinical observation

Question 4

What were believed to be the four liquids inside the body?

Answer 4

Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile

Question 5

If someone had a fever how would the ancient doctors treat them?

Answer 5

Blood-letting

Question 6

Who was Galen?

Answer 6

An anatomist and doctor who developed Hippocrates’ work

Question 7

What did Galen call his theory?

Answer 7

Theory of Opposites

Question 8

What did Galen prove about the body?

Answer 8

That the brain controlled the body not the heart

Question 9

Who did Galen develop his early medical skills on?

Answer 9

Gladiators

Question 10

How did fresh water arrive in Roman cities?

Answer 10

Aqueducts

Question 11

What did the Roman sewers rely on to work effectively?

Answer 11

Rain water

Question 12

How many people could visit the Roman baths in a week?

Answer 12

5000 people

Question 13

Why were Roman latrines a good idea?

Answer 13

Stop people urinating in the streets

Question 14

Who was Asclepius?

Answer 14

The God of Healing

Question 15

Name two things that people thought caused disease in the Middle Ages

Answer 15

Miasma, punishment from God, bad air, planets out of line

Question 16

How long were Galen’s ideas believed?

Answer 16

1500 years

Question 17

Describe public health in the Middle Ages

Answer 17

No sanitation, open sewers, waste in streets, butchers throwing rotten meat out in streets, stewes rather than baths

Question 18

Name 3 healers from the Middle Ages

Answer 18

Wise woman, family healer, apothecary, barber surgeon, trained physician, monks + nuns

Question 19

Who controlled education in the Middle Ages?

Answer 19

The Catholic Church

Question 20

When did the Black Death hit England?

Answer 20

1348

Question 21

Name 3 symptoms of the Black Death

Answer 21

Buboes, vomiting, fever, loss of control over the nervous system

Question 22

Who were the flagellents?

Answer 22

People who walked round streets whipping themselves to show god they knew what they did and deserved

Question 23

What was an apothecary?

Answer 23

A place for making herbal remedies and mixing medicines

Question 24

Where were the poor treated in the Middle Ages?

Answer 24

Monasteries

Question 25

Name another infectious disease in the Middle Ages

Answer 25

Leprosy