Exploring Medicine Chapters 1-3 Flashcards
Alexandria’s great library was
burned by a mob
What do medical schools use as the final word in medicine?
Galen’s books
Was the publication of On the Fabric of the Human Body considered one of the ten most important events in medical science?
Yes
Doctors used ___ because they beleived it put the body’s four humors in balance.
bloodletting
the most famous ancient Greek doctor was
Hippocrates
Are the books by Hippocrates and Galen free of errors?
no
The Hippocratic Oath for doctors is
a pledge of proper conduct
Was Galen put in prison while in Rome?
no
an artist who studied the human body so he could paint it accurately
Michelangelo
The most important physician during the Roman times was
Galen
a Polish astronomer who described the sun and not the earth as the center of the planetary system
Nicolas Copernicus
What was the treatment George Washington received based on?
the four-humors theory of disease
wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey stated that the heart was a ___.
pump
Blood is carried to the heart by
veins
a young artist who made illustrations for Vesalius’ book
Jan Stephen van Calcar
taught in Paris from old books
Sylvius
When William Harvey attended Padua in Italy, its most famous teacher was
Galileo
Galen believed that the marvelous complexity of the human body pointed to a ___
Creator
Andreas Vesalius came from a long line of
doctors
Are the medical discoveries of the Egyptian doctor Imhotep well known today?
no
Galen learned firsthand about the human body from
treating injured gladiators
a successful apothecary (druggist)
Vesalius’ father
