Ancient & Medieval Quiz

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 that Greek doctors cure their patients?

Answer 3

Bleed/Purge

Question 4

What were believed to be the 4 liquids inside the body?

Answer 4

Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Bleed

Question 6

Who was Galen?

Answer 6

An anatomist

Question 7

What did Galen call his theory?

Answer 7

Theory of Opposites

Question 8

What did Galen prove about the body?

Answer 8

Brain controlled body, not heart

Question 9

Who did Galen develop his early medieval skills on?

Answer 9

Gladiators

Question 10

How did fresh water arrive in Roman cities?

Answer 10

From reservoirs through aqueducts

Question 11

What did the Romans rely on to work effectively?

Answer 11

Rain water

Question 12

How many people could visit a Roman bath in a week?

Answer 12

5000

Question 13

Why were Roman latrines a good idea?

Answer 13

They stopped the public from weeing on the streets

Question 14

Who was Asclepius?

Answer 14

Roman God of Health

Question 15

Name two things that people thought caused disease in the middle ages:

Answer 15

Miasma, supernatural (God/Devil/Punishment)

Question 16

How long were Galen’s ideas believed?

Answer 16

1500 years

Question 17

Describe public health in the Middle Ages

Answer 17

‘Period of Regress’

Question 18

Name 3 healers from the Middle Ages

Answer 18

Wise Woman, Trained Physician, Barber Surgeon, Apothecary

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

Coughing, sneezing, large swells of blood/puss

Question 22

Who were the flagellants?

Answer 22

They whipped themselves and others in public

Question 23

What was an apothecary?

Answer 23

They mixed ingredients for the trained physician

Question 24

Where were the poor treated in this period?

Answer 24

At the monasteries

Question 25

Name an infectious disease in this time period:

Answer 25

Leprocy