Exploring Medicine Chapters 1-5

Question 1

Was William Harvey’s idea that blood circulates as the true picture accepted before he died?

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

Paré said, “The foundations of medicine must be ___”

Answer 2

love

Question 3

Are the books by Hippocrates and Galen free of errors?

Answer 3

no

Question 4

an artist who studied the human body so he could paint it accurately

Answer 4

Michelangelo

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Galen’s books

Question 6

Was Harvey’s circulation of the blood considered one of the ten most important events in medical history?

Answer 6

yes

Question 7

Blood is carried to the heart by

Answer 7

veins

Question 8

William Harvey believed that ___ be used to study medicine.

Answer 8

experiments

Question 9

Was the publication of On the Fabric of the Human Body considered one of the ten most important events in medical science?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

Was Galen put in prison while in Rome?

Answer 10

no

Question 11

the most famous ancient Greek doctor was

Answer 11

Hippocrates

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Creator

Question 13

taught in Paris from old books

Answer 13

Sylvius

Question 14

Did Paré learn to read and write Latin and Greek as a child?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

discovered capillaries

Answer 15

Marcello Malphighi

Question 16

a Polish astronomer who described the sun and not the earth as the center of the planetary system

Answer 16

Nicolas Copernicus

Question 17

William Harvey stated that the heart was a ___.

Answer 17

pump

Question 18

The most important physician during the Roman times was

Answer 18

Galen

Question 19

Paré became France’s most skilled surgeon and earned the title

Answer 19

First Surgeon of the King

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Galileo

Question 21

a successful apothecary (druggist)

Answer 21

Vesalius’ father

Question 22

Paré’s improved treatment to stop the bleeding after an amputation was to

Answer 22

use thread to tie the veins and arteries closed

Question 23

Was Paré reluctant to share his discoveries with others?

Answer 23

no

Question 24

Paré’s improved treatment for gunshot wounds was to

Answer 24

use soothing ointment

Question 25

wrote On the Motion of the Blood

Answer 25

William Harvey

Question 26

lectured on surgery and anatomy, pointed out valves in the veins

Answer 26

David Fabricius

Question 27

Alexandria’s great library was

Answer 27

burned by a mob

Question 28

taught the experimental method at Padua

Answer 28

Galileo

Question 29

What was the treatment George Washington received based on?

Answer 29

the four-humors theory of disease

Question 30

a young artist who made illustrations for Vesalius’ book

Answer 30

Jan Stephen van Calcar

Question 31

The Hippocratic Oath for doctors is

Answer 31

a pledge of proper conduct

Question 32

Galen learned firsthand about the human body from

Answer 32

treating injured gladiators

Question 33

In Europe of the 1500s, minor operations and first aid were given by

Answer 33

barbers

Question 34

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

Answer 34

no

Question 35

Andreas Vesalius came from a long line of

Answer 35

doctors

Question 36

Ambroise Paré said, “I treated him, ___ healed him.”

Answer 36

God

Question 37

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

Answer 37

bloodletting

Question 38

wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body

Answer 38

Andreas Vesalius