Medicine In The Middle Ages

Question 0

When did Muhammad die?

Answer 0

632 AD

Question 1

When did the western Roman Empire collapse?

Answer 1

500 AD

Question 2

Who led Islam after Muhammad died?

Answer 2

Caliphs

Question 3

What are caliphs?

Answer 3

Eastern kings/sub kings

Question 4

What did the caliphs rule in 1000 AD?

Answer 4

A huge empire from west to east

Question 5

Who built Baghdad and Cairo?

Answer 5

Caliphs

Question 6

What did caliphs build?

Answer 6

Mosques, schools, universities, cities, public baths, trade routes, hospitals

Question 7

Did Islam allow dissection of human bodies?

Answer 7

NO

Question 8

Where was the first paper factory and when?

Answer 8

Baghdad 794 AD

Question 9

How did Islam preserve the knowledge of Hippocrates and Galen?

Answer 9

Translated their medical books

Question 10

What Hippocratic idea did Arab doctors use?

Answer 10

Clinical observation

Question 11

Who invented anaesthetics?

Answer 11

Arab doctors

Question 12

What were the anaesthetics used by Arab doctors?

Answer 12

Sponges soaked in narcotics and placed on the face

Question 13

What were Arab doctors views on surgery?

Answer 13

It was a last resort

Question 14

How did the church affect medicine?

Answer 14

Preserved and passed on knowledge
Set up universities and medical schools
Insisted spiritual things outranked physical things
Limited human dissection
Set up hospitals
Tried to stop ideas circulating

Question 15

What was one of the first changes in middle age medicine?

Answer 15

Doctors began to get trained

Question 16

Where and when was the first medical school set up?

Answer 16

900 AC in Salerno, Italy

Question 17

What books did medical students work with in the early medical schools?

Answer 17

Galen’s and Hippocrates’

Question 18

Why were medical teachers in early medical schools not that useful?

Answer 18

They taught students to believe everything they read in books

Question 19

In the 1200’s, what law was passed that improved quality of doctors?

Answer 19

All doctors had to be approved at Salerno, in order to practise medicine

Question 20

Name a medical diagnosis idea which resulted from close observation

Answer 20

Urine colour was an aid to diagnosis

Question 21

What were the 2 groups of surgeons?

Answer 21

Licensed, well paid surgeons

Unqualified barber surgeons

Question 22

Was Galen allowed to be contradicted in the 14th C?

Answer 22

NO

Question 23

In the 1300’s, what were the most successful types of surgery?

Answer 23

Treating cataracts or henias

Question 24

How did surgeons become more skilled at treating broken bones?

Answer 24

They were taken to war to treat the injured

Question 25

What was the vade mecum?

Answer 25

A book containing tables of the planets, a urine chart and rules for bleeding patients

Question 26

Were trained doctors available for everyone in the Middle Ages?

Answer 26

No

Question 27

How did villagers treat minor ailments?

Answer 27

Local people learned healings and used magical or herbal cures

Question 28

What was cleanliness like in the Middle Ages?

Answer 28

It was a privilege of the rich

Question 29

How were towns run in the Middle Ages?

Answer 29

By a corporation of rich men from the town

Question 30

How did people in towns dispose of rubbish/sewage?

Answer 30

They put it on the street or in rivers

Question 31

Did any town corporations know about cleanliness?

Answer 31

Yes, a few passed laws to stop people dumping rubbish,but they were hard to inforce

Question 32

How did the clean corporations deal with the rubbish?

Answer 32

They cleared the streets and burnt the rubbish

Question 33

When did concern about public health first really kick in?

Answer 33

1348, after the plague epidemic

Question 34

What type of buildings had drainage and water systems?

Answer 34

Predominantly monasteries, sometimes hospitals

Question 35

When did the Black Death arrive in Europe?

Answer 35

1347-49

Question 36

How quickly could the Black Death kill someone?

Answer 36

Within a day?

Question 37

Who did people blame for the Black Death?

Answer 37

God, planets and the air

Question 38

What does renaissance mean?

Answer 38

Re birth

Question 39

What was the most important change in technology for knowledge?

Answer 39

When John Gutenberg introduced printing in 1454

Question 40

Who was Paracelsus?

Answer 40

A town physician and lecturer to university of Basel

Question 41

What did Paracelsus say about Galen?

Answer 41

That he's a liar and a fake

Question 42

Who was Vesalius?

Answer 42

An anatomist

Question 43

How did Vesalius teach anatomy?

Answer 43

Doing his own dissections, then publishing drawings