Exploring Medicine Chapters 1-2

Question 1

Alexandria’s great library was

Answer 1

burned by a mob

Question 2

When William Harvey attended Padua in Italy, its most famous teacher was

Answer 2

Galileo

Question 3

What do medical schools use as the final word in medicine?

Answer 3

Galen’s books

Question 4

The most important physician during the Roman times was

Answer 4

Galen

Question 5

William Harvey stated that the heart was a ___.

Answer 5

pump

Question 6

Was Galen put in prison while in Rome?

Answer 6

no

Question 7

the most famous ancient Greek doctor was

Answer 7

Hippocrates

Question 8

Galen learned firsthand about the human body from

Answer 8

treating injured gladiators

Question 9

Doctors used ___ because they beleived it put the body’s four humors in balance.

Answer 9

bloodletting

Question 10

The Hippocratic Oath for doctors is

Answer 10

a pledge of proper conduct

Question 11

Blood is carried to the heart by

Answer 11

veins

Question 12

Are the medical discoveries of the Egyptian doctor Imhotep well known today?

Answer 12

no

Question 13

Are the books by Hippocrates and Galen free of errors?

Answer 13

no

Question 14

What was the treatment George Washington received based on?

Answer 14

the four-humors theory of disease

Question 15

Galen believed that the marvelous complexity of the human body pointed to a ___

Answer 15

Creator