Chapter 1 Flashcards
4000 years ago, the Ebers Papyrus listed:
remedies for ailments
Egyptian culture considered healing as the successful result of:
a contest between invisible beings of good & evil
This group of people believed that life could be prolonged _______
Indefinitely
The jewish contribution to public health is greatest in:
sanitation
The Hebrew’s notion of disease was rooted in disease as
God’s punishment for sin
Name which the word hygiene is derived from; goddess of preventive health
Hygeia
All healing “universal remedy”
Panacea
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
This philosopher’s contribution to public health was the recognition that making accurate observations of & drawing general conclusions from actual phenomena formed the basis of sound medical reasoning
Hippocrates
In greek society, health was considered to result from:
balance between mind & body
Empedodes of Acragas asserted 4 main humors of the body, which were:
blood, bile, phlegm, black bile
In sickness in which no wound occurred, an _____ was considered the cause
evil spirit
Galen of Pergamum’s contribution to medicine is he helped it evolve into a ____
science
____ first developed mobile war nursing units
Romans
The ____ surpassed the Greeks in the evolution of nursing
romans
iatreia is an early form of:
hospital
The word hospital is derived from the Latin word __ meaning service of guests
hopitalis
Bubonic plague was caused by:
flea bites carrying bacillus
the name bubonic plague came from
swollen lymph nodes called bubos