Medicine In Prehistoric Times

Question 1

How did humans find information about medicine in prehistoric times?

Answer 1

Through:
Archaeological findings
Anthropological studies

Question 2

Men lived on average ____

Answer 2

35 years, women died 5 years earlier

Question 3

When did nomadic wanderers settle in communities?

Answer 3

About 5000 bc

Question 4

In the prehistoric period, prescription relied on___

Answer 4

Incantations

Question 5

Medical thought concepts

Answer 5

• Instinct
• Cause and effects
• Empirical removal of invisible causes of disease
• Therapeutics
• Magic
• Priestly medicine
• Astrological medicine

Question 6

The first medical thought was based on

Answer 6

Instincts

Question 7

What is Trephining?

Answer 7

Used in prehistoric times to remove ‘invisible causes of headache’ by drilling a hole in the skull

Question 8

What is Astrology?

Answer 8

a form of divination based on the assumption that the motions of the heavenly bodies influence human affairs

Question 9

Priestly medicine was mainly ___

Answer 9

Monotheistic, may be Polytheistic (based on worship of gods)

Question 10

Ancient Egyptian Medicine was when?

Answer 10

Between 6-5million AD

Question 11

Timeline of prehistoric medicine

Answer 11

2.5 million years ago

Question 12

Timeline of primitive medicine

Answer 12

5000 years ago

Question 13

Therapeutic medicine is also known as

Answer 13

Empirical

Question 14

Instinctive medicine was derived from

Answer 14

The cause and effect-relationship

Question 15

Empirical medicine was based on

Answer 15

Experience

Question 16

Menstruation and intermittent fevers were associated with

Answer 16

Movement of heavenly bodies (Astrology)