Medicine-Ancients

Question 1

Who treated people in prehistoric times?

Answer 1

Women, medicine men

Question 2

What did prehistoric people believe caused illness and disease?

Answer 2

Evil spirits

Question 3

How did the Prehistoric’s lifestyle affect medicine and health?

Answer 3

Nomadic-moved around so didn’t stay with their waste, diet (fresh fruit and veg), exercise

Question 4

How did Prehistoic people treat illness?

Answer 4

Charms, chants, herbal remedies, trepanning

Question 5

What factors helped the Ancient Egyptians to make progress in medicine?

Answer 5

Technology, communications, way of life, religion, government

Question 6

How did Egyptians treat illness?

Answer 6

Herbal remedies, prayers, charms, chants

Question 7

Who treated illness in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 7

Specialist doctors (developed because the Pharaoh had money to train doctors), women, Priests

Question 8

What was the source of Egypt’s wealth?

Answer 8

The River Nile, trade with other countries

Question 9

What was the Channel Theory?

Answer 9

They believed blood flowed through channels in the body and sickness was caused by rotting food blocking the channels

Question 10

Why was the Channel Theory important?

Answer 10

It was one of the first times people looked for a natural cause of illness rather than supernatural causes.

Question 11

How did religion help medicine in Ancient Egypt?

Answer 11

Their religion told them they needed to be clean. They washed with soap, women shaved, they wore make up that reduced eye infections. They also embalmed their dead so they learnt about the anatomy of body.

Question 12

Which Greek doctor told others to observe their patients?

Answer 12

Hippocrates

Question 13

What did Hippocrates do?

Answer 13

Four humours, observation and recording, Hippocratic oath, Hippocratic collection of books, natural treatments

Question 14

What were the four humours?

Answer 14

Blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm

Question 15

Who was the Greek God of healing?

Answer 15

Asclepious

Question 16

What happened at an Asclepion?

Answer 16

Sleep, bathe, pray to the Gods, be visited by Asclepious, exercise, eat properly

Question 17

Where was the great library and university set up by the Greeks?

Answer 17

Alexandria

Question 18

Who treated the sick in Ancient Greece?

Answer 18

Women, magicians and trained doctors

Question 19

Why is the theory of the four humours important to medicine?

Answer 19

It lasted for thousands of years. It was also a step forward because it looked at natural causes and treatments for illness.

Question 20

Give two factors that affected Greek medicine?

Answer 20

Technology, individual genius, attitudes: enquiry.

Question 21

Who was the famous Roman doctor (started as a gladiator doctor)?

Answer 21

Galen

Question 22

What did Galen do?

Answer 22

Theory of opposites, proved the brain controlled the body and not the heart, observation, wrote a great deal of books.

Question 23

What animal did Galen carry out his famous experiment on?

Answer 23

A pig

Question 24

Why was public health important to the Romans?

Answer 24

They believed in prevention rather that cure of illness. They knew healthy people would work harder and support their empire.

Question 25

Name three changes to public health made by the Romans

Answer 25

Aqueducts, public toilets, public baths, public water fountains, sewers.

Question 26

What did they believe caused illness in Ancient Rome?

Answer 26

Unbalanced humours, gods.

Question 27

Name two factors that helped develop medicine in Ancient Rome?

Answer 27

Individual genius, governments

Question 28

Why did ideas from the Greeks and Romans last for over 1500 years?

Answer 28

They fit in with religious ideas, Galen’s ideas fit with the Catholic Church so they promoted them.

Question 29

How did war help the Romans?

Answer 29

Carried out battlefield surgery, set up hospitals

Question 30

What is public health?

Answer 30

This is where governments provide systems to protect the people from disease.