Roman Quiz

Question 1

What caused people to be healthy?

Answer 1

Com., Regimen for health
War, the army needed healthy 
soldiers 
so Hospitals, Baths, Aquaducts and sewers
marshes were drained, reduced malaria.

Question 2

Who provided medical care?

Answer 2

Greeks
Galen
military nurses

Question 3

What caused diagnosis and treatment to change?

Answer 3

developed ideas of bad air (miasma) and tiny creatures as causes of disease

developed hospitals

employed trained military nurses

built on the Greeks’ knowledge of anatomy and physiology

Question 4

What caused diagnosis and treatment to remain the same

Answer 4

neglected to develop further the Greeks’ ideas about the nature of disease

Question 5

How far did new ideas and treatments (aka change) affect the majority of the population?

Answer 5

-

Question 6

What ideas did people have about the causes of illness

Answer 6

four humours

Question 7

What ideas did people have about the cures for illness

Answer 7

Use of opposites
Herbs
Gods (asklepion)

Question 8

Summarise Roman progress

Answer 8

develop ideas of bad air and tiny creatures as causes of disease
developed hospitals, and employed trained military nurses
They were skilled surgeons, They built on the Greeks’ knowledge of anatomy and physiology
Aquaducts and sewers
marshes were drained, reduced malaria.

Question 9

Summarise Galens progress

Answer 9

Trained in war and asclepion
Supported Hippocrates and aristotle
Wrote unbiased books
Dissected 
Mistakes included
-rete mirable=human
-blood started in the liver
-blood was consumed