Ancient Greece

Question 1

Where did the Greeks live?

Answer 1

Around the city of Athens and the Mediterranean area

Question 2

What did Greeks build on?

Answer 2

Egyptian ideas

Question 3

What were Greeks famous for?

Answer 3

Their love of philosophy and rational thinking

Question 4

Who was the Greek God of Healing?

Answer 4

Asclepius

Question 5

Who was the most important Greek person?

Answer 5

Hippocrates

Question 6

Who was Hippocrates?

Answer 6

A philosopher and doctor who changed the way doctors approached their work

Question 7

When was the Greek Empire?

Answer 7

1000BC to 250BC

Question 8

When did Hippocrates live?

Answer 8

460BC to 377BC

Question 9

Who is Hippocrates often called?

Answer 9

“The Father of Medicine”

Question 10

What did Hippocrates become famous for?

Answer 10

The Hippocratic Collection (corpus of books)

Question 11

What was Hippocrates’ theory?

Answer 11

The Four Humours

Question 12

Which doctors was the theory of the Four Humours based on?

Answer 12

Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras and Aristotle

Question 13

What did Hippocrates think everything was made out of?

Answer 13

Four elements: earth, water, fire and air

Question 14

What idea did Hippocrates apply to the human body?

Answer 14

That it was therefore made of four humours: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile

Question 15

What did Hippocrates think that balance of the four humours was affected by?

Answer 15

The seasons e.g. yellow bile in summer, black bile in autumn, phlegm in winter and blood in spring

Question 16

What did Hippocrates say had to happen for a person to remain healthy?

Answer 16

The four humours had to remain in balance, and an imbalance caused an illness

Question 17

What did Hippocratic medicine reject?

Answer 17

The idea that Gods, magic and spirits could cure disease

Question 18

What did Hippocrates develop to treat patients effectively?

Answer 18

Clinical observation

Question 19

What is Clinical Observation?

Answer 19

Made of four parts: Observation, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment

Question 20

What did Hippocrates tell doctors to do?

Answer 20

To observe their patients and take notes in order to pass on important ideas so illnesses could be predicted and treatments could be based on knowledge gained from other cases

Question 21

Using clinical observation, how did doctors treat their patients?

Answer 21

They tried to bring the 4 humours back into balance e.g. they would bleed a person with too much blood, purge a person

Question 22

What is the Hippocratic Oath?

Answer 22

Doctors had to promise to give their best treatment and not to harm the patient

Question 23

What was bad about Hippocratic medicine?

Answer 23

It was accepted for hundreds of years and no one dared to say it was wrong which hindered medical progress, some treatments like bleeding were very dangerous

Question 24

What was good about Hippocratic medicine?

Answer 24

It rejected many bad supernatural cures

Question 25

Where did people go to be cured in the Temple of Asclepion?

Answer 25

They had to sleep in the Abaton where they were visited at night by Asclepius, his two daughters and a snake which would help him heal

Question 26

What did people also do at the Temple of Asclepion apart from sleeping in the Abaton?

Answer 26

They took regular exercise, ate a healthy diet and bathed

Question 27

How did people get Asclepion to cure them?

Answer 27

They made offerings and prayers at the temple and left carved stones as a sign of gratitude

Question 28

What were attitudes to Public Health like in Greek times?

Answer 28

Similar to Ancient Egyptians; Hippocrates recommended keeping clean but governments did not do anything to help

Question 29

What did Hippocrates recommend?

Answer 29

A 'Programme of Health'; a healthy diet and regular exercise would lead to a healthy body and mind

Question 30

What did Hippocrates recommend in terms of seasons?

Answer 30

To eat less and drink more in summer, and to drink less and eat more in winter

Question 31

What kind of public health things were built all over greece?

Answer 31

Sports stadiums and gymnasiums. Showers were compulsory after exercise

Question 32

What was Greek way of life best suited to?

Answer 32

Rich people; poor people like labourers and craftsmen found it very difficult to keep clean

Question 33

What was Greek surgery like?

Answer 33

Very limited; they performed basic surgical operations like setting broken bones

Question 34

What was Greek surgery and Treatment based on the idea of?

Answer 34

The 4 Humours

Question 35

What was built at Alexandria?

Answer 35

A university and a library for doctors which eventually developed in to a medical school with books in from Hippocrates and Aristotle

Question 36

What was so good about Alexandria?

Answer 36

The dissection of corpses was allowed which allowed doctors to find out a lot about anatomy

Question 37

What did Herophilus discover from dissections?

Answer 37

That the brain controlled the human body