Medicine Through Time

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Who's main ideas were the four humours?
Hippocrates
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What did Galen develop The Four Humours into?
The theory of opposites
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During 1350, what was the average life expectancy?
30 years
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How was the bubonic plague spread?
By the fleas on black rats
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Why were Galen's beliefs and teachings approved by the church?
Because Galen believed that the parts of the body had been created to work together in such a way that only God could of created it
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How would a trained physician during 1350+ diagnose you?
By using your urine and astrological information
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The Barber-Surgeon during 1350+ would not only treat you, but would also do what?
Cut your hair and pull out your teeth
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Women in the 14th century could be midwives but had to be what?
Licensed by a bishop
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Unlike Galen, what was Vesalius allowed to do?
Disect humans
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What did Vesalius prove Galen wrong in?
That the jaw bone was one bone, not two and blood could not move through the septum
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Before Harvey showed that blood flows around the body and the heart acted as a pump, what did doctors believed before that?
That blood was constantly being made up in the liver
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Pare helped a wound heal using what instead of burning oil?
Ointment
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By the 18th century, people became aware that disease spread in dirty and unhygienic conditions. What two theories began to develop?
Spontaneous generation and Miasma
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In the 1830s, Cholera was a real problem because before, it had only been found in what country?
India
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Smallpox epidemics broke out. Edward Jenner discovered what?
That people who caught cowpox, were less likely to catch smallpox
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Jenner took a small amount of infected skin from a cowpox sore and rubbed it on an 8 year old's arm. Why couldn't he do that today?
It is illegal to test of humans without their permission
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Parliament gave him £30,000 to set up a clinic and his work went worldwide. 50 years later, what did parliament do?
Made his vaccination compulsory
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Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895) suggested that beer, wine and milk go sour because of microbes in the air. He also suggested what?
That microbes were the cause disease
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Robert Koch (1843 - 1910) wanted to find specific microbes that caused each disease. Which disease did the first microbe identified cause?
Anthrax
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