History - Medicine

Question 1

Who developed the The Theory of the Four Humours?

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

What did the Greeks consider to be a healthy body?

Answer 2

A balanced body

Question 3

How did Hippocrates suggest that Greek doctors cure their patients?

Answer 3

Clinical observation

Question 4

What were believed to be the 4 liquids inside the body?

Answer 4

Blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile

Question 5

If someone had a fever how would the ancient doctors treat them?

Answer 5

Bleed them

Question 6

Who was Galen?

Answer 6

Anatomist

Question 7

What did Galen call his theory?

Answer 7

The Theory of Opposites

Question 8

What did Galen prove about the body?

Answer 8

It was controlled by the brain and not the heart

Question 9

Who did Galen develop his early medical skills on?

Answer 9

Gladiators

Question 10

How did fresh water arrive in Roman cities?

Answer 10

Aqueducts

Question 11

What did the Roman sewers rely on to work effectively?

Answer 11

Rain water

Question 12

How many people could visit a Roman bath in a week?

Answer 12

5000

Question 13

Why were Roman latrines a good idea?

Answer 13

Cleaner streets

Question 14

Who was Asclepius?

Answer 14

God of Healing

Question 15

Name two things that people thought caused disease in the Middle Ages?

Answer 15

• Supernatural

- Misalignment of the planets

Question 16

How long were Galen’s ideas believed?

Answer 16

1500 years

Question 17

Describe public health in the Middle Ages

Answer 17

• Bad living conditions

- Butchers killing animals in the street

Question 18

Name 3 healers from the Middle Ages

Answer 18

• Wise woman
• Apothecary
• Barber-surgeon

Question 19

Who controlled education in the Middle Ages?

Answer 19

The Church

Question 20

When did the Black Death hit England?

Answer 20

1348

Question 21

Name 3 symptoms of the Black Death

Answer 21

• High Fever
• Diarrhoea
• Buboes around the groin and armpits

Question 22

Who were the flagellents?

Answer 22

People who would beat themselves for their sins in order to avoid illness

Question 23

What was an apothecary?

Answer 23

Someone who have mixed medicine

Question 24

Where were the poor treated in this period?

Answer 24

Home

Question 25

By looking at their urine, how did doctors diagnose patients?

Answer 25

Astrology - Positions of the planets and moon

Question 26

What was a popular way to treat illnesses or wounds in 1350?

Answer 26

Herbal remedies

Question 27

What was the Pneumonic plague?

Answer 27

Caused the victim to cough up blood and struggle to breathe

Question 28

Why were Jews massacred in this period?

Answer 28

They were believed to be poisoning the wells

Question 29

How were people treated at home in the Middle Ages?

Answer 29

By a female family member using herbal remedies

Question 30

Explain why the plague spread around so quickly in homes?

Answer 30

Treatments were going on which caused the spread of disease

Question 31

Who were Quacks?

Answer 31

Healer with no training, who could make a lot of money selling charms or remedies

Question 32

Who were hospitals run by in 1350?

Answer 32

Monks and/or nuns who believed God might have sent the illness in the first place. Medical care focused on praying for patients souls

Question 33

Why did hospitals not admit infectious or incurable patients?

Answer 33

No medical professionals

Question 34

Who paid for hospitals to be opened in between 1350 and 1750?

Answer 34

Local people, charities, and town councils

Question 35

Who were hospitals run by in 1750?

Answer 35

Trained physicians and nurses without medical training, but they now admitted infectious patients

Question 36

Was the same treatment used in 1750?

Answer 36

Herbal remedies and minor surgery was common, but prayer was still heavily used

Question 37

What did Galen teach the church?

Answer 37

All body parts fitted together to make a well-designed whole, which fitted into what the Bible taught about man being made in God's image

Question 38

What else did the Church control?

Answer 38

Libraries - it chose what to translate and copy, therefore choosing Galen's books

Question 39

Why was it difficult for any further anatomical discoveries to be made in the Church?

Answer 39

They did not allow human dissection, meaning medical students had to go on what Galen taught as they were not able to discover anything different for themselves