Ancient and medieval medicine

Question 1

What did the greeks consider to be a healthy body?

Answer 1

A balanced body

Question 2

How did Hippocrates suggest that Greek doctors cure their patients?

Answer 2

Clinical observation

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Bleeding

Question 4

Who was Galen?

Answer 4

A famous ancient doctor and anatomist

Question 5

What was Galens theory?

Answer 5

Theory of opposites

Question 6

What did Galen prove about the body?

Answer 6

The brain controlled the body not the heart

Question 7

Who did Galen develop his early medical skills on?

Answer 7

Gladiators

Question 8

How did fresh water arrive in Roman cities?

Answer 8

Resovoirs and aqueducts

Question 9

How many people could visit a roman bath in one week?

Answer 9

5000

Question 10

Why were roman latrines a good idea?

Answer 10

Stopped feaces on the streets

Question 11

Who was asclepius?

Answer 11

God of healing

Question 12

What were two things that people thought caused disease in the middle ages?

Answer 12

Miasma and gods

Question 13

How long were galens ideas belived?

Answer 13

1500 years

Question 14

What was public health like in the middle ages?

Answer 14

Dirty, open sewers, contaminated water/rivers

Question 15

Name 3 healers from the middle ages

Answer 15

Wise women, barber surgeon, apothecary

Question 16

Who controlled education in the middle ages?

Answer 16

Catholic church

Question 17

When did the black death hit england?

Answer 17

1348

Question 18

Name 3 symptoms of the black death?

Answer 18

Buboes, fever, coughing

Question 19

Who were flagellents?

Answer 19

People who beat themselves to stop getting black death

Question 20

What was an apothecary?

Answer 20

No qualifications but trained monks and nuns and mixed remedies for physician

Question 21

Where were the poor treated?

Answer 21

Monasteries

Question 22

Name another infectious disease in this period

Answer 22

Lepracy