Roman and Middle Aged Medicine

Question 1

What time period was Ancient Rome?

Answer 1

700 BC - 400 AD

Question 2

Who were the main individuals who impacted the development of medicine during this time?

Answer 2

Hippocrates and Galen

Question 3

What theories did Hippocrates believe in?

Answer 3

• Theory of the 4 Humours
• Clinical Observation (when treating)
• Natural Causes
• Theory of Miasma

Question 4

What theories did Galen believe?

Answer 4

• Theory of opposites

- Brain controls body not the heart

Question 5

What is the theory of the four humours?

Answer 5

Theory suggesting that blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile should be balanced in order to maintain the health of a body.

Question 6

What is clinical observation?

Answer 6

Clinical observation is where a doctor or a healer could diagnose through looking at the patient.

Question 7

What is the theory of opposites?

Answer 7

Theory suggesting that if one of the four humours is out of balance then the opposite must be done to cure it.

Question 8

How did Galen make the discovery proving that the body was controlled by the brain not the heart?

Answer 8

He was experimenting with a pig and he showed that he could cut certain nerves in the brain but when he cut a specific nerve, the pig stopped squealing.

Question 9

Who developed the Theory of the Four

Humours?

Answer 9

Hippocrates

Question 10

What did the Greeks consider to be a healthy

body?

Answer 10

Balanced

Question 11

How did Hippocrates suggest that Greek

Doctors cure their patients?

Answer 11

Clinical observation

Question 12

What were believed to be the 4 liquids inside the

body?

Answer 12

Blood, Phlegm, Yellow bile and Black bile.

Question 13

If someone had a fever how would the ancient

doctors treat them?

Answer 13

Bleed them

Question 14

Who was Galen?

Answer 14

An anatomist who developed Hippocrates’ theories and ideas.

Question 15

What did Galen call his theory?

Answer 15

Theory of opposites

Question 16

Who did Galen develop his early medical skills

on?

Answer 16

Gladiators

Question 17

How did fresh water arrive in Roman cities?

Answer 17

Aqueducts

Question 18

What did the Roman sewers rely on to work

effectively?

Answer 18

Rain water

Question 19

How many people could visit a Roman bath in a

week?

Answer 19

5000

Question 20

Why were Roman latrines a good idea?

Answer 20

Stopped people urinating in the streets.

Question 21

Who was Asclepius?

Answer 21

God of healing

Question 22

Name two things that people thought caused

disease in the Middle Ages.

Answer 22

Miasma + God

Question 23

How long were Galen’s ideas believed?

Answer 23

1500 years

Question 24

Name 3 healers from the Middle Ages.

Answer 24

Wise woman, Trained physician and Barber surgeon.

Question 25

Who controlled education in the Middle Ages?

Answer 25

Catholic church

Question 26

When did the Black Death hit England?

Answer 26

1348

Question 27

Name 3 symptoms of the Black Death.

Answer 27

Buboes, fever and fits.

Question 28

Who were the flagellants?

Answer 28

Beat themselves

Question 29

What was an apothecary?

Answer 29

Mixed medicines

Question 30

Where were the poor treated in this period?

Answer 30

Monasteries

Question 31

Name another infectious disease in this period.

Answer 31

Leprosy