Medieval Summary

Question 1

When was Hippocrates alive?

Answer 1

460 BC - 370 BC

Question 2

How many books in the Hippocratic collection?

Answer 2

60 books

Question 3

When was Galen alive?

Answer 3

130 AD - 200 AD

Question 4

How many books did Galen write and what were they based on?

Answer 4

300 books on anatomical theories

Question 5

When was Abulcasis alive?

Answer 5

936 AD - 1013

Question 6

What did Abulcasis write and when?

Answer 6

Al Tasrif in 1000

Question 7

When was Guy de Chauliac alive?

Answer 7

1300-1368

Question 8

What did Guy de Chauliac write and when?

Answer 8

Great surgery 1363

Question 9

When was Roger Frugardi alive?

Answer 9

1140-1195

Question 10

What did Roger Frugardi write and when?

Answer 10

Practice of surgery in 1180

Question 11

When was John of Arderne alive?

Answer 11

1307-1392

Question 12

What did John of Arderne write and when?

Answer 12

Practica in 1376

Question 13

What significant group did john of Arderne form?

Answer 13

The guild of surgeons

Question 14

When was Theodoric of Lucca alive?

Answer 14

1205-1296

Question 15

Why was Theodoric of Lucca’s book controversial?

Answer 15

Argued that pus was bad and used wine on wounds to reduce chance of infection

Question 16

When was Mondino alive?

Answer 16

1270-1326

Question 17

What did Mondino do?

Answer 17

Held a public dissection in 1315 and wrote Anathomia in 1316

Question 18

When was Rhazes alive?

Answer 18

854 AD

Question 19

How many books did Rhazes write?

Answer 19

150 books

Question 20

When was Avicenna alive?

Answer 20

980-1037

Question 21

What did Avicenna do?

Answer 21

Translated works into Arabic so they reached Western Europe

Question 22

When was Ibn-al-Nafis alive?

Answer 22

1213-1288

Question 23

What did Ibn-al-Nafis do?

Answer 23

Discovered Galen was wrong about the workings of the heart.

Question 24

Black Death- when

Answer 24

1346-1353

Question 25

Law passed, no animal waste in streets.

Answer 25

1330

Question 26

Law passed, no killing large animals inside London city walls.

Answer 26

1371

Question 27

Law, those who used the river to pay annual cleaning fee

Answer 27

1374

Question 28

People would be fined £20 for disposing into rivers

Answer 28

1388

Question 29

Waste collection begins in Coventry

Answer 29

1420

Question 30

Space in front of houses in Coventry to be cleaned every Saturday or pay a fine

Answer 30

1421

Question 31

What was Galen’s theory?

Answer 31

Theory of opposites

Question 32

What famous experiment did Galen carry out?

Answer 32

Cut a pigs nerves, proved brain controlled voice and movement not heart

Question 33

Barber surgeons provided what it a smaller price?

Answer 33

Bloodletting, removing teeth and cutting hair

Question 34

What did barber surgeons need to practice?

Answer 34

An apprenticeship

Question 35

Doctors trained for…

Answer 35

Seven years at university- only reading and discussing

Question 36

Treatments?

Answer 36

Bloodletting, purging, clearing miasma, praying, amputation, bloodletting, trepanning

Question 37

What were the risks of surgery?

Answer 37

Bleeding/shock/infection

Question 38

John of Arderne’s anaesthetic:

Answer 38

opium, henbane and hemlock. Dangerous with a big dose

Question 39

What was cauterisation?

Answer 39

Hot oil poured on wound to treat “poison” from gunshot wounds.

Question 40

How many new surgical instruments from Abulcasis?

Answer 40

26 new surgical instruments

Question 41

Where did John of Arderne get experience?

Answer 41

Hundred year war, specialised in anal abscesses

Question 42

Islam taught:

Answer 42

For every disease, allah has made a cure

Question 43

Islamic hospitals…

Answer 43

Treated AND taught

Question 44

Rhazes encouraged:

Answer 44

Keen observation and new ideas

Question 45

London population change

Answer 45

15,000 in 1100 to 80,000 in 1300

Question 46

Wood/lead pipes installed to assist with water demand

Answer 46

Bad because lead poisoned

Question 47

How many dead from Black Death?

Answer 47

75-200 million

Question 48

How much of England killed

Answer 48

1/3 of England

Question 49

How much of chinas population

Answer 49

50% of china

Question 50

How much of Europe’s population?

Answer 50

30-40% of population