120 Questions To Know Flashcards

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What was miasma?

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Bad air that caused disease

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What is anatomy

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Knowledge of the body

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What is public health?

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The health of the entire population

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Why do we know so little about prehistoric people?

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They didn’t write things down (keep records)

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Who is the first person people turn to for medical treatment that has been the same throughout history?

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Women, mother

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Which came first Greek or Egyptian?

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Egyptian

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What does nomadic mean?

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They move around

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What effect did being nomadic have on public health?

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They didn’t care about it as they could move easily

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Who treated the sick in prehistoric times?

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Medicine man

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What is trepanning?

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Drilling into the cranium to release headaches, or bad spirits

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What is a rational cure the prehistoric people used?

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Set broken bones using sticks and mud

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