Early Medicine Cause and Cure

An overview quiz of early medicine, cause and cure. This is from pre-historic to Renaissance.

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1. Which of these was said to NOT cause disease in the supernatural approach to cause and cure? (in Medieval Medicine)

  • The Four Humours
  • God
  • Zodiac Symbols
  • The Stars and Planets
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2. What did many people believe caused the Black Death? (in Medieval Medicine)

  • The Comet over London
  • The dirty water in the Thames
  • The dirt and waste on the streets

3. What did the animals of Asclepios do to the injured people while they slept in the Asclepion? (in Greek Medicine)

  • Licked their wounds to heal them
  • Bit their wounds to heal them
  • Alerted Asclepios to the wounds so that he may heal them

4. Which of these answers is NOT one of the four blockages in Egyptian medicine?

  • Purging
  • Draining Saliva
  • Vomiting
  • Bleeding

5. What was the name of the book that contained all the ideas of Pre-Medieval Medicine? (in Islamic Medicine)

  • The Canon of Medicine
  • The Big Book of Ideas
  • A Collection and Study of all medicinal progress since the times of the Greek Empire up to the great Islamic Empire
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