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Greek And Medivial Flashcards

1
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What were the 4humours?

A

Blood
Phlegm
Black bile
Yellow bile

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2
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What is a humour?

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A liguid

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What were signs of each humour being unbalanced?

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Blood- Cough blood or have nose bleeds
Phlegm- Sneeze revolting phlegm
Black bile- Vomit a dark evil-smelling liguid
Yellow bile- Vomit half-digested food

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4
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How was each humour rebalanced?

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Blood- leaches
Black bile- lacitives
Yellow bile- Enemic
Phlegm- Something warm

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5
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What was the Hippocratic Oath?

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Do patients no harm

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6
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What did Hippocrates suggest caused disease?

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Natural reasons eg diet and living habits

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7
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When was Hippocrates born?

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460BC

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8
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What is Regimen?

A

Doing stuff to be healthy eg sleep

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9
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What did Greeks believed caused disease?

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God

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10
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What is an Asclepion?

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A temple dedicated to the Greek god of healing(Asclepius)

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How long did Galens ideas last for?

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Over 1500 years later untill the 16th century

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If an idea disagreed with Galen what would people suggest?

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The body was wrong

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13
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Because of Galens ideas what couldn’t advance untill the 1600?

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Medicine

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14
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What did Galen do?

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Dissections

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15
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Why did Galen use pigs in many dissections?

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As it was the closest to the human anatominly

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16
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Who was the top Roman doctor?

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Galen

17
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What did Galens dissections prove?

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The brain controlled the body not the heard as it is connected to the spinal cord

18
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Why did the church support Galen?

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As his ideas fitted the idea of god creating human and the perfect design

19
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What was 3 examples of Galens work that helped medicines progress?

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1-He emphasised the importance of Hippocrates ideas to observe and record a patient
2- Galen proved the brain controlled speech
3- Galen proved the arteries are not just veins carrying blood

20
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What is Miasma?

A

Bad air that led to disease

21
Q

What caused bad air?

A

God

22
Q

What decided the cause of disease?

A

The church

23
Q

Who created the idea of Miasma

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Hippocrates

24
Q

What year did life expectancy start to improve?

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1861

25
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Why did the church plan an important role in influencing what people caused disease?

A

As the church supported Galen, as he allowed the idea of a perfect design by god and if you disagreed with the church it was herocy and you would be executed

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