Medicine Mock 1

Question 1

Medieval science/ technology

Answer 1

Medieval doctors only used:
taking of pulse
looking at urine colour

Question 2

Medieval role of individual

Answer 2

Ideas of Hippocrates and Galen - 4 humours and their ideas spread across Greece, Rome, Islamic world.

Question 3

Renaissance Science/Technology

Answer 3

Printing press invented allowing for easier distribution of medical books, they were also much cheaper.
Microscope invention proved Harvey’s beliefs.

Question 4

Renaissance Role Of Individual

Answer 4

Vesalius disagreed with Galen’s idea about blood being fuel the body burnt, William Harvey discovered blood is pumped around the body by the heart.

Question 5

Industrial Science/Technology

Answer 5

Many still used the 4 humours

Many doctors believed in spontaneous Generation and others believed in Miasma theory.

Question 6

Industrial individuals

Answer 6

John Hunter changed ideas about anatomy in 1700s
Louis Pasteur proved there is germs in the air and published his germ theory in 1861
Robert Koch built on Pasteurs work by linking specific disease to the particular microbe.