Lecture 1 (History of Anatomy)

Question 1

4 Elements

Answer 1

Earth, air, water fire

Question 2

4 conditions of the elements

Answer 2

Hot, cold, wet, dry

Question 3

Dis-ease

Answer 3

Spiritual/ demons posses

Inbalance of the elements

Question 4

4 Body Fluids

Answer 4

Humors

1. Blood: came from the liver
2. Phlegm: Mucus and pus, spit out through coughing
3. Bile (yellow): gall bladder
4. Bile (black): spleen

Question 5

Hippocrates

Answer 5

400 B.C.

First to describe tuberculosis

Question 6

Hippocrates

Categories of disease

Answer 6

Two
Acute: quick and lasted briefly
Chronic:long lasting (weeks, month, years)

Question 7

Dis-ease groups

Answer 7

Sporadic: Only few ppl
Epidemic: many ppl, same problem

Question 8

Hippocrate’s terms

Answer 8

Malignant: life threatening, evil and dangerous
Benign: innocent and would not kill you

Question 9

Hippocratic Oath

Answer 9

Called men who wanted to study anatomy
Oath to serve to community
Do no harm
Never perform abortion
Would never hasten Death
Disobey = cannot practice medicine

Question 10

Aristotle

Answer 10

300 B.C.
The heart was the center of the mans soul, intelligence, personality, worth, character
Brain was responsible for cooing the blood
Men had fewer ribs and women had less teeth

Question 11

Aristotle (Artery)

Answer 11

An air to or wind pipe

Vessels contain air not blood

Question 12

Galen

Answer 12

150 A.D.
Father of Anatomy
wrote many volumes of anatomy of animals
Anatomy of animals were reflection of human anatomy
Injury to diff parts of spine = diff types of paralysis
Pulse too quick = dis-ease
His writings did not match human cadavers

Question 13

Michelangelo and Leonardo

Answer 13

Given permission to look at human dissections by the church

Leonardo the first to understand the spine is not straight but had a natural curve

Question 14

Versalius

Answer 14

“Father of modern anatomy”
Studying works of Galen
Went to cemeteries
Went to gallows to get bodies of dead prisoners

Question 15

William Harvey

Answer 15

English physician

First understanding of flow of blood

Question 16

Harvey (Blood flow)

Answer 16

Pattern to blood flow
Understand heart is the pump
Veins and arteries did two diff things
Valves make it flow
Coin the term Circulation

Question 17

John Hunter

Answer 17

Physcian
Wanted to know everything about humans
Commissioned for ppl to bring diff animals back
Built Huntarian Museum (14,000 diff species)
Gave himself gonorrhea
because he believed that syphilis was an advanced form of Goneereha

Question 18

Charles O’ Brian

Answer 18

Irish giant

Skeleton stolen by John Hunter

Question 19

Body Snatchers

Answer 19

Physicians would pay to rob graves

Right after a body was burried

Question 20

Robert Knox

Answer 20

Physician

Paid quite a lot

Question 21

Burke and Hare

Answer 21

Hare owned a hotel

Burke and Hare decided to kill patrons of the hotel and sell to Robert Knox

Question 22

Astley Cooper

Answer 22

Physician
First discovered aneurysm
Coopers Ligaments

Question 23

Coopers Ligaments

Answer 23

In the female breast

Change in ligaments = possibly cancer

Question 24

Henry Gray

Answer 24

Grey’s Anatomy, 1st edition at 29 yrs old

Question 25

John Grant

Answer 25

died 1973
Wrote method of dissection
Still used

Question 26

Willed Body Program

Answer 26

National U.S. program
Complete short concise will,
when they die a medical school will receive the body
They embalm and preserve