GCSE Medicine Booklet 1

Question 1

What percentage of chidren, in medieval times, died before the age of seven?

Answer 1

30%

Question 2

How did medieval people try to cure rheumatism?

Answer 2

Wear a donkey skin

Question 3

Name a 10th century medical text

Answer 3

Bald’s Leechbook?

Question 4

What theory did Hippocrates establish?

Answer 4

The Four Humours

Question 5

How did Hippocrates influence later medicine?

Answer 5

He wrote 60 books and his ideas were used in Western medicine for centuries

Question 6

Where did Galen learn about anatomy?

Answer 6

He worked in a gladiator school, in Rome, treating injuries

Question 7

How did Galen affect later medicine?

Answer 7

His books were used as university text books and they taught dissection

Question 8

Which Arab doctor wrote the first description of smallpox symptoms?

Answer 8

Rhazes

Question 9

Which Arab doctor wrote the book called ___ ____ __ _______ and ___ _____ __ ________?

Answer 9

The Book of Healing and The Canon of Medicine, Avicenna

Question 10

What medical equipment did Islamic doctors invent?

Answer 10

Stitching and scalpels

Question 11

What are the Four Humours?

Answer 11

Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile

Question 12

Some people believed that God made diseases but also provided herbal cures. What was this idea called?

Answer 12

The Doctrine of Signatures

Question 13

What herb was used to break up kidney stones?

Answer 13

Saxifrage

Question 14

Who carried out minor operations such as pulling teeth?

Answer 14

A Barber-surgeon

Question 15

What were the two main charts used by physicians to diagnose illness?

Answer 15

Urine charts and Zodiac charts

Question 16

Which women would provide medical care in medieval times?

Answer 16

the lady of the manor

Question 17

What did people believed caused tooth ache?

Answer 17

A tooth worm

Question 18

How many hospitals did the church set up in the 12th and 13th centuries?

Answer 18

160

Question 19

What places of learning did the Church help to establish?

Answer 19

The church set up university schools of medicine in Europe where physicians were trained using the texts of Galen and Hippocrates

Question 20

What scientist was arrested for opposing Galen’s work

Answer 20

Roger Bacon

Question 21

What was cauterisation?

Answer 21

Cauterisation, where very hot metal was applied to wounds to stop bleeding and was often painful or fatal

Question 22

What diagram was used to treat wounds caused by weapons?

Answer 22

The Woundman

Question 23

What medieval hospital helped pregnant women?

Answer 23

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London ,1123

Question 24

Why were medieval towns so unhealthy?

Answer 24

No waste disposal, contaminated rivers, cesspits for human waste next to wells

Question 25

How did Coventry improve its public health?

Answer 25

Every man cleaned the street in front of his house, 1420 waste collection started

Question 26

List 3 causes of the plague, according to medieval people.

Answer 26

Bad smells, God is angry, Miasma (evil spirits)

Question 27

How did people try to avoid the plague?

Answer 27

clean filth from streets, bathe in urine

Question 28

How did people treat the plague?

Answer 28

Pop buboes, attach a live chicken to the buboes

Question 29

What were the results of the Black Death?

Answer 29

Wages increased for the workers left alive, Workers rights improved

Question 30

How many people were killed in the Black Death?

Answer 30

1/3

Question 31

How did Islam improve medicine?

Answer 31

used clinical observation, understood hygiene, set up hospitals

Question 32

How did Islam hinder medicine?

Answer 32

banned dissection

Question 33

Who was the most famous Muslim surgeon?

Answer 33

Abulcasis