Prehistoric Era to Ancient Egypt

Question 1

Life expectancy in prehistoric times

Answer 1

25-40 years

Question 2

Has anti-inflammatory effect and considered as a relaxant

Answer 2

Chamomile

Question 3

Bitter herb with astringent and anti-bleeding properties

Answer 3

Yarrow

Question 4

Applied to wounds together with animal hide bandage strips

Answer 4

Herb poultices

Question 5

Treatment for broken bones

Answer 5

Smeared clay

Question 6

Used for trephining

Answer 6

Obsidian stones and flint flakes

Question 7

Mummified body found in 1991 in European Alps

Wore leather garments, arried a knife, bow and arrow

Answer 7

Otzi, the iceman

Question 8

A laxative with anti-parasitic properties

Answer 8

Piptoporus betulinus

Question 9

What does otzi’s tattoos symbolize?

Answer 9

Symbolic therapy for pain relief

Question 10

Derived from Siberian: “He or she who knows”

aka Witch doctors, medicine men, sangomas, brujo

In contact with the spirit world

Answer 10

Shaman

Question 11

Belief system wherein herbal treatments are often combined with rituals and prayers

Answer 11

Shamanism

Question 12

T or F: Medicine and healing is inseparable from religion during the Ancient Egypt

Answer 12

T

Question 13

T or F: During the Ancient Egypt, physicians were like priests

Answer 13

T

Question 14

aka “He who comes in peace”

chancellor to the Pharaoh, architect of pyramids, high priest to sun god Ra

Regarded as a god; later associated with Aesculapius

Answer 14

Imhotep

Question 15

Black Father of Medicine

Answer 15

Imhotep

Question 16

First female doctor

aka “Beloved of the god Ptah”

Chief Physician

Answer 16

Merit Ptah

Question 17

These were believed to provide protection and healing

Answer 17

Amulets

Question 18

Most important ancient document in anatomical and surgical treatment

15 ft in length

Answer 18

Edwin Smith papyrus

Question 19

During mummification, this organ is the first one to be removed because it is believed that it has no value in afterlife

Answer 19

Brain

Question 20

Proposed that the body is full of channels; you become ill if these channels are blocked

Answer 20

Channel Theory