Week 4

Question 1

Man was not capable of learning from his own observations.

Science was static.

Answer 1

The Age of Faith

Question 2

Disease was a punishment.

The appropriate response was to suffer.

Answer 2

Christianity

Question 3

Church’s view of science

Answer 3

Aristotle for biology

Galen for medicine

Question 4

Surgery on the Middle Ages was performed by ________.

Answer 4

Barbers

Question 5

Barber Pole represented

Answer 5

Red = blood
White = bandages
Blue = veins

Question 6

Leprosy was killed off by ______.

Answer 6

The Bubonic Plague

Question 7

Two main types of plague

Answer 7

Pneumonic and Bubonic

Question 8

Plague transmitted by droplets sprayed from the lungs and mouth

Answer 8

Pneumonic

Question 9

Plague wiped out 33% (10 million) of the European population in two years

Answer 9

Bubonic Plague

Question 10

The theory that vapors from decomposing materials were the cause of disease.

Answer 10

Miasma

Question 11

Italian born, raised respect for nursing, focused heavily on miasma for hospital cleanliness

Answer 11

Nightingale

Question 12

Best educated surgeon of his time (French)

Published Chirurgia Magna

Answer 12

Guy De Chauliac

Question 13

Created the first printing press

Answer 13

Johannes Gutenburg

Question 14

Italian artist who accurately portrayed muscles and other structures.

Answer 14

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 15

Established stantards

Answer 15

Philippus Paracelsus

Question 16

Proposed the earliest germ theory of disease.

Referred to germs as seminaria

Answer 16

Girolamo Fracastoro

Question 17

Discovered the fallopian tubes

Answer 17

Gabriel Fallopius

Question 18

Father of modern surgery

Opposed the theory of laudable pus

Answer 18

Ambroise Pare

Question 19

“The dorsal vertebrae outwardly dislocated, when they stand bunching forth… Then must you lye with your extuberancyes, and force the prominent vertebrae… you may know that the vertebrae are restored by the equal smoothness of the whole spine.”

Answer 19

Ambrose Pare

Question 20

Proved that blood was pumped around the body in a closed system.

Answer 20

William Harvey

Question 21

Considered the founder of Histology

Answer 21

Marcello Malpighi

Question 22

Father of bacteriology and protozoology

Answer 22

Antoni Van Leewenhoek

Question 23

First to use thermometry in clinical practice

Answer 23

Hermann Boerhaave

Question 24

Universities, banks, modern cities and nationalism were created during this time.

Answer 24

Middle ages