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. 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
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2. Who introduced the idea of the Four Humours? (in Greek Medicine)

  • Hippocrates
  • Avincenna
  • Galen

3. Which of these ideas did not continue from Greek to Roman times?

  • The Four Humours
  • The Library at Alexandria
  • The Asclepion

4. Which god would protect pregnant women from evil spirits? (in Egyptian Medicine)

  • Tawaret
  • Isis
  • Thoth

5. What did prehistoric trepanning hope to achieve?

  • To release bad spirits
  • To put someone out of their misery
  • It was a show of bravery
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