Medicine

Question 1

When was the Antonine Plague?

Answer 1

165 AD

Question 2

Who is our main source for the Antonine plague?

Answer 2

Galen

Question 3

Nutton’s quote about small-town agrarian communities?

Answer 3

‘Where we all know one another, our family, education, wealth, and way of life’

Question 4

What did most communities rely on?

Answer 4

Self-sufficiency, adopting a variety of strategies to cope with season changes

Question 5

How was bulk movements of food controlled?

Answer 5

Wealthy benefactor or the exploitation of an imperial power

Question 6

Greek words for dearth and widespread disease?

Answer 6

Limos and loimos

Question 7

What did Hesiod say about family life? (Clue - boundary)

Answer 7

Having enough to eat and feeding family

Question 8

What did Galen say poor were driven to and why?

Answer 8

Eating leaves when their own supplies had been taken away by force

Question 9

What was the average life expectancy?

Answer 9

20-30

Question 10

What differed with every locality?

Answer 10

Different disease and demographic profile

Question 11

Soranus’ work in AD 100 focused on?

Answer 11

Instructions on ways to turn the child in the womb

Question 12

What was the embrycrusher?

Answer 12

Help remove a dead child or abort a live one

Question 13

How did Plato contribute to medicine?

Answer 13

His philosophical treaty - concept of a world built up from and capable of resolution

Question 14

How do we know the romans had arthritis?

Answer 14

Discovered in many skeletons of the young

Question 15

What was breast cancer linked to?

Answer 15

Menopause

Question 16

If you couldn’t remove the roots of the cancer entirely, what was the best approach?

Answer 16

Avoiding the knife entirely

Question 17

What were the hippocratic epidemics

Answer 17

Selective in their presentation of signs and symptoms, focusing on things that would enable the reader to estimate severity and forecast out - intervention?

Question 18

What was Celsus unkeen on?

Answer 18

drastic intervention , more likely to damage the patient

Question 19

What did Celsus put faith in?

Answer 19

Conservative management which did not provoke the cancer to develop further

Question 20

What effect did the scattered population have on outbreaks of epidemic disease?

Answer 20

Too scattered to allow widespread

Question 21

Where did the epidemic in 278-276 BC affect?

Answer 21

Rome and Latium; ended by cold weather

Question 22

According to Tacitus, how many were killed in the epidemic in 65 AD?

Answer 22

30,000 including senators and nobility

Question 23

(The Antonine plague of 166-172) ancient theory behind why?

Answer 23

Because the army had sacked the temple of Apollo

Question 24

What did Cyprian say about the Pandemic in 250?

Answer 24

Not a single city spared; half the population of Alexandria wiped out

Question 25

Why were soldiers most likely to be unfit for service?

Answer 25

Ill health - contagious eye diseases

Question 26

What was a Greek belief within their writing?

Answer 26

Epidemic disease was the result of bad air strands

Question 27

What is phthisis?

Answer 27

Tuberculosis

Question 28

What is psora?

Answer 28

Scabies

Question 29

Why not apply animal remedies?

Answer 29

Easier to kill a sheep

Question 30

What was the benefit of the religious location of burial grounds outside the town walls?

Answer 30

Helped for sanitary reasons

Question 31

What did Galen think was important in the home?

Answer 31

Good ventilation in the house

Question 32

What did Vitruvius write in 20 BC?

Answer 32

Architectural manuals - no evidence it was followed

Question 33

Why were doctors required in the army?

Answer 33

Act as expert witnesses in cases or murder and serious injury

Question 34

Why did the mansions of the rich Pergamenes enjoy a better environment?

Answer 34

Healthier. Gentle cooling breezes from the Aegean a few miles to the west

Question 35

According to Galen, why were the professions of fishermen and scribes dangerous?

Answer 35

Fishermen - temp paralysed by an electric eel. Scribes - writing in bright sunlight on reflective surfaces

Question 36

Early fourth century BC, Plato's ideal state in laws?

Answer 36

Advised free men and slaves to be treated by different types of physicians

Question 37

Typically, why would a slave have seen a doctor?

Answer 37

To be sold; discount applied if there was a chronic defect

Question 38

Why did Galen's criticise | younger doctors terminology?

Answer 38

Accuracy of their description lost to those unfamiliar

Question 39

What did Galen imply took a lot out of doctors time?

Answer 39

Ulcers

Question 40

According to Pliny, what was introduced into Italy in the early first century AD?

Answer 40

Form of fungal sycosis

Question 41

What does lepra mean in greek?

Answer 41

A scaly disease

Question 42

Who did Plutarch site as a reference for this - ____ claimed the disease only appeared in the late second century BC (elephantiasis)

Answer 42

Athenodorus

Question 43

Elephantiasis was mentioned in the hippocratic corpus, what does it mean?

Answer 43

Greek word that stresses the thickening of the skin and bone changes in a disease

Question 44

What was the ointment against elephantiasis?

Answer 44

Archagathus

Question 45

What were haemorrhoids viewed as?

Answer 45

Something good; way to evacuate harmful blood; ending of bleeding the concern

Question 46

What did Galen expect any competent surgeon to be able to cure?

Answer 46

Eye conditions; growths of the cornea and eyelid

Question 47

What did gout get honoured in?

Answer 47

Lucian - satricial poem - a gouty tragedy

Question 48

What was special about the tomb of Scribonia Attice

Answer 48

Medical scenes - childbirth - infant chair

Question 49

Pliny's opinion on Greek doctors?

Answer 49

Immoral conduct

Question 50

What does pastilli mean?

Answer 50

Pills

Question 51

What did Cato believe the medical properties of cabbage were?

Answer 51

Helped digestion

Question 52

When was Aulus Celsus kicking about?

Answer 52

1st century

Question 53

What did Aulus Celsus write?

Answer 53

De Medicina - traditional remedies

Question 54

SOURCE THIS - magic first rose from medicine, advanced under the guise of a holier system, added religion and astrology

Answer 54

Pliny, HN. 30.2

Question 55

SOURCE THIS - Medicine alone of the greek arts we serious romans have not yet practised, few of our citizens have touched upon it

Answer 55

Pliny NH 29

Question 56

SOURCE THIS - it was a crowd of physicians that killed me

Answer 56

PLINY NH 29.21

Question 57

SOURCE THIS - cabbage, promotes digestion, excellent laxative, urine is wholesome for everything

Answer 57

Cato, on agriculture, 156

Question 58

When did Seneca complain of his illness?

Answer 58

Seneca, on benefits, 6

Question 59

SOURCE THIS - he sat at my bedside among my anxious friends... crises of my illness... not as a physician but as a friend

Answer 59

Seneca, on benefits, 6

Question 60

SOURCE THIS - arts that have knowledge and skill in them, necessary for pubic, these are credible

Answer 60

Cicero, de officiis 1.42