History of Medicine

Question 1

The first recorded information about medicine comes from which area

Answer 1

Mesopotamia

Question 2

What does the term Mesopotamia mean

Answer 2

The land between the two rivers

Question 3

Many civilisations grew up in Mesopotamia, when did they all start

Answer 3

About 5000 years back

Question 4

Name a late Mesopotamian civilisation

Answer 4

Babylonian

Question 5

Name the king of the Babylonian civilisation who left a law code carved on a stone pillar

Answer 5

Hammurabi

Question 6

Name a civilisation that overlapped with the Mesopotamian civilisation

Answer 6

Egyptian

Question 7

Name two important Egyptian writings on medicine

Answer 7

Georg Ebers papyrus Edwin Smith papyrus ( 1600BC)

Question 8

The most famous Egyptian physician of whom records remain is

Answer 8

Imhotep

Question 9

Imhotep was the vizier ( prime minister) of which Pharoah

Answer 9

Zoser

Question 10

Imhotep lived around which time period

Answer 10

2600 BC

Question 11

Name an Ancient Greek historian of fifth century BC

Answer 11

Herodotus

Question 12

What does Ayurveda mean

Answer 12

The knowledge needed for a long life

Question 13

The chief Ayurvedic works were medical encyclopaedias written by two sages

Answer 13

Charaka Sushruta

Question 14

Charaka is said to have lived around

Answer 14

100 AD

Question 15

Sushruta is said to have lived around

Answer 15

200 years after charaka

Question 16

China’s earliest books are said to have been written by

Answer 16

Three legendary emperors

Question 17

The most extensive earliest Chinese medical book is the

Answer 17

Inner canon of medicine

Question 18

The Inner Canon of Medicine is credited to have been written by

Answer 18

Yu Hsing

Question 19

Epochal clinical studies on poliomyelitis in 1907 was by

Answer 19

IVAR WICKMAN

Question 20

Arsenic comes in three colours

Answer 20

White Yellow Red

Question 21

The famous rock star of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers group that died of narcotic overdose was

Answer 21

Hillel Slovak

Question 22

The first European to travel to China was

Answer 22

Marco Polo

Question 23

When did the Chinese take to smoking opium

Answer 23

When tobacco was banned in China in 1644

Question 24

The OPIUM WARS was fought between which two countries

Answer 24

England and China

Question 25

What was the reason for the opium wars

Answer 25

China tried to stop the import of British opium from India

Question 26

In 1805 the strongest ingredient from opium was extracted

Answer 26

Morphine

Question 27

The word morphine was derived from

Answer 27

MORPHEUS, the Greek god of dreams and sleep

Question 28

The earliest term for addiction was

Answer 28

Morphinism

Question 29

What was known as the SOLDIERS DISEASE

Answer 29

Morphine addiction among the soldiers of the American civil war

Question 30

In 1898 Bayers company extracted a drug 20 times more powerful than morphine, name the drug

Answer 30

Heroin

Question 31

The major smuggling ring that was smashed by the police in an effort to stop the narcotic trade was known as the

Answer 31

French connection

Question 32

Internationally the fight against narcotics was fought at two areas name them

Answer 32

The golden crescent ( southwest Asia) The golden triangle ( south east Asia )

Question 33

What was the cornerstone of the American drug policy

Answer 33

Controlled substance act in 1970