History Of Medicine Revision

Question 1

Egyptian Gods

Answer 1

Ra - God of Sun
Isis - Goddess of health
Sekhmet - Goddes of healing
Tawaret - God of pregnancy and birth
Anubis - The Jackal headed God of the dead and mummification

Question 2

The 2 Treaments

Answer 2

Practical and spiritual treatments

Question 3

Practical treatment (definition)

Answer 3

making the patient bleed/vomit/do a bowel movement to treat a blocked channel.

Question 4

Spiritual treatment (definition)

Answer 4

a Spell as an appeal to a God. Or Sympathetic Magic, such as the use of a pig’s eye to cure a person’s blindness.

Question 5

The channel theory

Answer 5

Channel theory’ was the ancient Egyptian theory that channels ran through the body and that a healthy body would have unblocked, free-flowing channels (46 channels in total).

Question 6

Father of medicine

Answer 6

Hippocrates

Question 7

Greek Gods

Answer 7

Asclepius - God of medicine
Zeus - God of sky
Hygeia - Goddess of cleanliness and health
Panacea- Goddess of universal health

Question 8

The four humours

Answer 8

1. Blood 2.Yellow bile 3. Black bile 4. Phlegm

Question 9

Mummification

Answer 9

the ultimate invasive procedure, for which a variety of tools were developed, Ancient Egyptians did not practice surgery. With no anaesthetic, and only herbal antiseptics, it would have been a painful and risky business! Their skills lay in what we would call first aid; resetting dislocated bones and treating swellings, for example - external surgery.

Question 10

Elements of the Hippocratic Oath

Answer 10

Hippocrates promises to be careful and focused while treating patients
He promises not to be careless or treat the patients badly
He promises to work at the best of his ability
He will use he’s best to make patients better
And promises to prevent the patients from any further harm

Question 11

About Asclepius

Answer 11

Asclepius had a staff with a snake wrapped around it. The snake had good venom to heal sick people.

He was thought to take on the form of a snake, and so the snake represented him.

Question 12

Asclepius known for

Answer 12

Rod of Asclepius

Question 13

Who conducted the squealing pig experiment

Answer 13

Claudius Galen

Question 14

Frigidarium

Answer 14

Cold room

Question 15

Tepidarium

Answer 15

Warm room

Question 16

Caladarium I/II

Answer 16

Hot plunge rooms

Question 17

Palaestra

Answer 17

Exercise room

Question 18

Apodyterium

Answer 18

Changing room

Question 19

Who discovered the 4 humours

Answer 19

Hippocrates

Question 20

Bubonic plague

Answer 20

appeared in the armpits groin, followed by dark blisters over the body, accompanied by a high fever. Mortality rates were around 50 %, with death occurring after several days.

Question 21

Pneumonic plague

Answer 21

This form attacked the victim’s lungs, causing them to suffer difficulty breathing and to cough up blood. Mortality rates were around 90% and death occurred much more quickly

Question 22

Septicaemic plague

Answer 22

A much more rare form of plague, this cause vomiting, and diarrhoea fever and gangrene. 100% mortality rate death was rapid

Question 23

Believes of the plague

Answer 23

The planets Saturn Jupiter and mars alining together. Causing bad air to their earth and evil vapours
The wrath of God in the Old Testament when he set a plague on Egypt for being sinful.

Question 24

Plague doctor outfit

Answer 24

A mask full of herbs to prevent bad smell
Leather clothing
Gloves to prevent contact with people how have the plague