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Where was Hippocrates born and when (roughly)

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Kos, Greece in about 460BC

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Who is known as the ‘father of modern medicine’

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Hippocrates

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What is the Hippocratic oath

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An oath based on studies of Hippocrates. Outlines ethical obligations when treating a patient

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Who first introduced the theory of the four humours

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Hippocrates

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What was the theory of four humours

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That the human body was made up of four substances and illness was caused by an imbalance of these humours.

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What were the four humours

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Blood
Phlegm
Black bile
Yellow bile

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What did Hippocrates encourage doctors to do when treating patients

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Seek natural causes and cures of illness. Clinical observation of the patient rather than just of the illness

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When and where was Galen born

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Italy (Roman) in AD129

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What theory linking to the four humours did Galen develop

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Theory of opposites

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What was the theory of opposites

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Idea that illness could be treated by balancing the humours

E.g if someone had a cold to eat something hot and spicy to balance

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What animals did Galen dissect for his work on anatomy

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Pigs and monkeys

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What did Galen (wrongly) believe about how blood was made and transported around the body

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That blood passed from one side of heart to the other through tiny holes in the septum

That blood was constantly being made

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What other thing did Galen wrongly believe

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That the human jaw was two separate bones

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What supernatural methods of treatment were used (3)

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Prayer
Astrology
Trepanning (cutting hole in the skull and removing part of the bone)

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Natural treatments (3)

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Bloodletting
Purging
Herbal remedies

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Did Hippocrates and Galen encourage natural or supernatural treatments

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Natural treatments

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Whose teachings did the Catholic Church support and why?

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Galen, because he believed a greater being has created human life and this was compatible with the Christian beliefs

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Why did Galens ideas last for so long

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The church controlled the teaching at the universities so Galens ideas continued to be followed and believed

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What did the Qur’ran teach Muslims to do with the sick

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They have a duty to care for people who are sick.

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Why was Islamic medicine more advanced than medicine in England

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Their faith encouraged Muslim doctors to develop new ideas and treatments

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How did the church hinder development in medicine

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Limited how much doctors could challenge the work of Galen so new ideas were not introduced

22
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Who was Al-Razi (rhazes)

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Doctor who helped plan building of a hospital in Baghdad - first general hospital in the world opened in AD805

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How did Al-Razi (Rhazes) decide where to build a hospital

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Hung meat in different parts of the city and the hospital was built in the area where the meat took the longest amount of time to rot.

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Who was the first person to work out the diffference between smallpox and measles

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Al-Razi (Rhazes)

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How many books did Al-Razi write

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Over 200

translated into Latin and used to teach in many universities across Europe.

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Who was Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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Doctor and astronomer

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Ibn Sina wrote many books but which was his most famous

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The canon of medicine, completed in 1025

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What was the Canon of Medicine

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Book by Ibn Sina that explored ideas about anatomy and human development, encouraged natural treatments

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What were the crusades

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Wars over the control of the Holy Land

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How did the crusades impact medicine

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Doctors had to frequently travel to the holy land with the crusaders and learned new ideas from Islamic kingdoms

31
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What was trepanning

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A hole cut in the top of someone’s skull to allow bad spirits to escape. Most people died but some survived.

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What was cauterisation

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Process used to stop bleeding.

Heating a piece of iron in fire and pressing it into a wound. This would seal the blood vessels but risked a severe burn and was very painful.

High chance of causing infection and death

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What early anaesthetics did medieval surgeons use

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Herbal remedies:

Opium or hemlock

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What were barber surgeons

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Surgeons who carried out basic surgery :
Removing teeth, bloodletting etc

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Why were monasteries important

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Throughout medieval period over 1,000 monasteries. They gave free care to those in need. Also preserved ancient ideas about medicine

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Who run monasteries and abbeys

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Monks and nuns

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