History of Medicine Flashcards
The first recorded information about medicine comes from which area
Mesopotamia
What does the term Mesopotamia mean
The land between the two rivers
Many civilisations grew up in Mesopotamia, when did they all start
About 5000 years back
Name a late Mesopotamian civilisation
Babylonian
Name the king of the Babylonian civilisation who left a law code carved on a stone pillar
Hammurabi
Name a civilisation that overlapped with the Mesopotamian civilisation
Egyptian
Name two important Egyptian writings on medicine
Georg Ebers papyrus Edwin Smith papyrus ( 1600BC)
The most famous Egyptian physician of whom records remain is
Imhotep
Imhotep was the vizier ( prime minister) of which Pharoah
Zoser
Imhotep lived around which time period
2600 BC
Name an Ancient Greek historian of fifth century BC
Herodotus
What does Ayurveda mean
The knowledge needed for a long life
The chief Ayurvedic works were medical encyclopaedias written by two sages
Charaka Sushruta
Charaka is said to have lived around
100 AD
Sushruta is said to have lived around
200 years after charaka
China’s earliest books are said to have been written by
Three legendary emperors
The most extensive earliest Chinese medical book is the
Inner canon of medicine
The Inner Canon of Medicine is credited to have been written by
Yu Hsing
Epochal clinical studies on poliomyelitis in 1907 was by
IVAR WICKMAN
Arsenic comes in three colours
White Yellow Red
The famous rock star of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers group that died of narcotic overdose was
Hillel Slovak
The first European to travel to China was
Marco Polo
When did the Chinese take to smoking opium
When tobacco was banned in China in 1644
The OPIUM WARS was fought between which two countries
England and China
What was the reason for the opium wars
China tried to stop the import of British opium from India
In 1805 the strongest ingredient from opium was extracted
Morphine
The word morphine was derived from
MORPHEUS, the Greek god of dreams and sleep
The earliest term for addiction was
Morphinism
What was known as the SOLDIERS DISEASE
Morphine addiction among the soldiers of the American civil war
In 1898 Bayers company extracted a drug 20 times more powerful than morphine, name the drug
Heroin
The major smuggling ring that was smashed by the police in an effort to stop the narcotic trade was known as the
French connection
Internationally the fight against narcotics was fought at two areas name them
The golden crescent ( southwest Asia) The golden triangle ( south east Asia )
What was the cornerstone of the American drug policy
Controlled substance act in 1970
