Week 3

Question 1

Sicilian poet, statesman, priest, philosopher, scientist and physician.
WROTE in VERSE.

Answer 1

Empedocles

Question 2

Used treatments such as special baths, exercise and BONE-SETTING for ailing patients.
Temples and shrines dedicated to him.

Answer 2

Asclepions

Question 3

Asclepius’s daughter.

Root of the word hygiene.

Answer 3

Hygiea

Question 4

Asclepius symbol

Answer 4

The Caduceus

Question 5

“Father of Western Medicine”

Convinced physicians that diseases had identifiable causes and were not due to the supernatural.

Answer 5

Hippocrates

Question 6

Established the first true medical school at Cos.

Answer 6

Hippocrates

Question 7

Contained at least three books on bones and joints.

Answer 7

Hippocratic Corpus

Question 8

Oath that has taken on many revisions from its original version.

Answer 8

Hippocratic Oath

Question 9

First physician to clearly describe techniques of spinal manipulation.

Answer 9

Hippocrates

Question 10

Techniques of spinal manipulation in Hippocrates’s book on joints referred to as _________.

Answer 10

Rachiotherapy

Question 11

Two types of Rachiotherapy

Answer 11

1. Table with poles at each end. While under traction, spinal thrust administered.
2. Succussion - gravity traction

Question 12

“Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.”

Answer 12

Hippocrates aphorism

Question 13

Humoral Theory - Hippocrates claimed that epilepsy was due to an excess of _______.

Answer 13

Phlegm

Question 14

Humoral Theory - Plato claimed epilepsy was caused by a mixture of _______ and _______ that short circuited the brain.

Answer 14

Phlegm & Black Bile

Question 15

Plato’s followers

Answer 15

Dogmatists

Question 16

Dogmatists used extreme therapeutic measures including ______ and _________.

Answer 16

Purging and Bleeding

Question 17

Described the punctum saliens (first signs of the embryo)

Answer 17

Aristotle

Question 18

Spontaneous Generation

Answer 18

Abiogensis

Question 19

Father of scientific anatomy

Performed the first recorded public dissection

Answer 19

Herophilus

Question 20

Performed human dissections together

Answer 20

Herophilus and Erasistratus

Question 21

After Herphilus and Ersistratus, human dissection was discontinued for 18 centuries until ________ began his work during the renaissance.

Answer 21

Vesalius

Question 22

Human Vivisection

Answer 22

Dissection while still alive.

Herphilus and Erasistratus were suspected of getting criminal out of prison by royal permission.

Question 23

Intellectual centre of the Greek empire.

Answer 23

Alexandria (present day Egypt)

Question 24

Learned most of their medical knowledge from Greece, Egypt and other countries they conquered.

Answer 24

Romans

Question 25

Two poor-hygiene practices by the Romans

Answer 25

Public baths
Public latrines (toilets)

Question 26

As a profession, medicine was more highly regarded in ______ than _______.

Answer 26

Greece than Rome

Question 27

Many Roman doctors were freed ______ slaves.

Answer 27

Greek

Question 28

Wrote De Medicina

Answer 28

Celsus

Question 29

Pliny the elder

Author of Historia Nauralis

Answer 29

Caius Pliny

Question 30

2nd most important to Hippocrates

Most important of Roman Empire

Answer 30

Galen

Question 31

The four classic symptoms of inflammation (Galen)

Answer 31

Calor (heat)
Dolor (pain)
Rubor (redness)
Tumor (swelling)

Question 32

Longest run medical text

Answer 32

On Anatomical Preparation (5th-15th century)

Question 33

Insisted on examinations before medical licensing

Answer 33

Arabists

Question 34

1st to differentiate between smallpox and measles

Answer 34

Rhazes

Question 35

Rhazes’s text

Answer 35

al-Hawi

Question 36

Pioneered the use of opium

Answer 36

Avicenna

Question 37

Cauterization lead to this substance which was considered a good thing as it drew evil spirits out.

Answer 37

Pus

Question 38

First MEDICAL scientist (Greek)

Answer 38

Alcmaeon of Croton