Health & The People: Key Figures In Medieval Medicine

Question 1

What did Vesalius dissect? (2)

Answer 1

Pigs & apes

Question 2

How did versalius learn from dissections?

Answer 2

By doing them himself

Question 3

What did Vesalius make with his findings?

Answer 3

Charts and Drawings

Question 4

What were Vesalius’ ideas based on?

Answer 4

Scientifical discoveries

Question 5

What did Vesalius find about some of Galen’s findings?

Answer 5

That some of them were incorrect

Question 6

What did Vesalius receive after saying Galen’s ideas were wrong?

Answer 6

Heavy criticism - as a result, he left his job

Question 7

What was the name of the book that Vesalius wrote?

Answer 7

‘The Fabric of the Human Body’

Question 8

What year was Vesalius’ book published?

Answer 8

1543

Question 9

What did Vesalius’ book focus on?

Answer 9

Focused on different systems within the body

Question 10

What did Vesalius show others about dissections?

Answer 10

How to do them properly

Question 11

Who followed Vesalius’ ways?

Answer 11

Famous 16th Century anatomists - Fabricius, Renaldo Culumbo, Fallopius

Question 12

In the later 16th Century, where was Vesalius’ book found?

Answer 12

In England

Question 13

What did Parè use to heal gunshot wounds?

Answer 13

A homemade ointment

Question 14

What was Parè’s ointment made out of?

Answer 14

Egg Whites
Rose oil
Turpentine

Question 15

When did Parè first use the ointment?

Answer 15

When he ran out of boiling oil

Question 16

What used to heal gunshot wounds before Parè’s ointment?

Answer 16

Boiling oil

Question 17

What did Parè find out about his ointment?

Answer 17

That it worked better than boiling oil

Question 18

What else did Parè invent to stop bleeding?

Answer 18

Ligatures

Question 19

What were ligatures?

Answer 19

Silk threads tied around each individual blood vessel

Question 20

What was the one negative about Parè’s ligatures?

Answer 20

Surgeons didn’t know about germs so wounds would get infected

Question 21

What did Parè write his book on?

Answer 21

Treating wounds in a new, better way

Question 22

How did Parè learn?

Answer 22

From Vesalius’ work

Question 23

What did Parè also invent?

Answer 23

The bec de corbing

Question 24

What was the bec de Corbing?

Answer 24

A clamp that halted bleeding whilst the blood vessels were being tied off

Question 25

What type of surgery did Parè do?

Answer 25

Amputations - also created false limbs for soldiers

Question 26

What did William Harvey believe about how blood traveled around the body?

Answer 26

Believed blood traveled in circles from the heart around the body and back to the heart

Question 27

How many types of blood did William Harvey believe there were?

Answer 27

1

Question 28

Why were William Harvey’s findings controversial?

Answer 28

Would mean that all of Galen’s ideas were false

Question 29

How did Williams Harvey build up his heart knowledge?

Answer 29

Through dissecting dead people’s heart

Question 30

How long did it take for universities to teach part of his findings?

Answer 30

50 years

Question 31

Who was Al-Razi?

Answer 31

a doctor who helped to plan the building of a hospital in Baghdad, in modern-day Iraq

Question 32

What did Al-Razi believe?

Answer 32

he believed in the importance of observation and seeking natural causes of illnesses

Question 33

What was Al-Razi the first person to do?

Answer 33

work out the difference between smallpox and measles.

Question 34

Who was ibn sina

Answer 34

a doctor and astronomer.

Question 35

What well known book did ibn siner write?

Answer 35

The Canon of Medicine

Question 36

What did ibn siner’s book talk about?

Answer 36

anatomy and human development, and it encouraged natural treatments

Question 37

What is ibn siner known for?

Answer 37

being one of the first doctors to build on the works of Galen and not just copy them