Christianity

Question 1

True or False. Epidemics in Constantinople initiated a revival of magical practices.

Answer 1

True

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Question 2

3 Greek physicians who maintained the older tradition amidst moral decadence, superstition and intellectual disorders

Answer 2

1) Oribasius
2) Alexander of Tralles
3) Paul of Aegina

Question 3

St. Bernard of Nursia [Monte Cassino, Italy]

Answer 3

• founded the Benedictine order

- obligated members to study the sciences

Question 4

Bertharius III [Monte Cassino, Italy]

Answer 4

famous physician w o w

Question 5

Where was the first european medical school founded?

Answer 5

Salerno (near Naples)

Question 6

Trotula [Salerno]

Answer 6

• best-known woman prof

- gynecologist who published a handbook on midwifery

Question 7

Under the Frankish theologian ___________, Fulda became a famous center of medial learning in Germany

Answer 7

Rabanus Maurus

Question 8

It was due to his efforts that medicine was included in the curriculum of cathedral schools

Answer 8

Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor

Question 9

During the 9th and 10th centuries, the _______ became recognized as the center of medical activity

Answer 9

health resort of Salermo

Question 10

Constantine the African

Answer 10

• Italian physician and translator who became a Benedictine monk
• prepared Latin translations of Arabic and Greek medical classics so its Graeco-Roman heritage was revived

Question 11

Regimen Sanitatis

Answer 11

• school of Salerno’s collection of domestic medicine in the form of proverbs

Question 12

True or False. Women were not admitted to the school of Salerno.

Answer 12

False.

Question 13

True or False. The School of Salerno still regarded suppuration (formation of pus) as part of natural wound healing.

Answer 13

True.

Question 14

School that became the center of medical knowledge in the 11th century; physiology and pathology followed that of Galen; first organized medical school in Europe

Answer 14

School of Salerno

Question 15

Archbishop Raimundo

Answer 15

• founded at Toledo, Spain, an institue for translation of Arabic medical manuscripts into Latin

Question 16

Lanfranchi

Answer 16

• pioneered in surgical anatomy along with William of Saliceto (his teacher)
• first to differentiate hypertrophy and breast cancer

Question 17

Pietro d’Abano

Answer 17

• reconciled differences of Greek and Arabic systems

Question 18

Henri de Mondeville

Answer 18

• advocated antiseptic treatment of wounds

- use of sutures

Question 19

Emperor Frederick II

Answer 19

• created law stating that a year of postgraduate practice under an established physician was required before the graduate was licensed

Question 20

Taddeo Alderotti

Answer 20

• established post-mortem dissections

- early developer of Consilia (medical case book; advice was given by by professor to younger physicians)

Question 21

This city was also known as the Hippocratic City

Answer 21

Salerno

Question 22

Describe the curriculum of the school of Salerno

Answer 22

It required 3 years of preliminary studies, and 5 years of medical studies in order to receive the degree of magister / doctor

Question 23

Guy de Chauliac

Answer 23

• Father of French surgery
• first to recognize the plague in Europe
• first to describe femoral hernia
• believed in the doctrine of pus
• popularized scorpion oil as diuretic in venereal diseases (STDs)

Question 24

Arnold of Villanova

Answer 24

• invented alcoholic tincture of herbs

- “women are poisonous creatures”

Question 25

He regarded seeking secular medical aid as blasphemy

Answer 25

Gregory of Tours

Question 26

Who were blamed for the plague epidemics

Answer 26

Jews