Greek Quiz

Question 1

What caused people to be healthy?

Answer 1

Communication, Followed Regimen for health

Religion, Asclepion

Question 2

Who provided medical care?

Answer 2

Asclepius (hygeia+Panacea)
Doctors
Priests

Question 3

What caused diagnosis and treatment to change?

Answer 3

Philosophers

• Hippocrates (corpus/oath/CMOO)
• Aristotle (4 humours)
• Alexandria (dissection/ books)

Question 4

How far did new ideas and treatments (aka change) affect the majority of the population?

Answer 4

‘Airs, water and places’ studies the natural history of diseases, they realised that diseases had natural causes and cures

they were professional and took the Hippocratic Oath

Question 5

What ideas did people have about the causes of illness

Answer 5

An imbalance of the four humours

Lack of regimen

Question 6

What ideas did people have about the treatment of illness

Answer 6

Asclepion
Ointments and rituals
Balancing humours
Regimen
Surgery (last resort, quick death)

Question 7

Summarise Greek progress

Answer 7

they knew about Anatomy
they developed clinical observation
they studied the natural history of diseases
they realised that diseases had natural causes and cures
they developed the theory of the Four Humours and the ‘use of opposites’
they wrote and used medical textbooks
they were professional and took the Hippocratic Oath
they were skilled at setting broken bones and slipped discs
they knew hundreds of herbal remedies
they had a reassuring ‘bedside manner’
they developed a Programme for Health for personal health and hygiene.

Question 8

What caused people to be unhealthy?

Answer 8

No sewers or running water