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6. What key thing changed during the renaissance?

  • Vesalius became a 'celebrity' and everyone dressed like him, textile industries started to form.
  • language improved accross countries, meaning things could be understood and communicated better.
  • Art improved, meaning that drawing, paintings and sculptures were much more realistic and had a greater likeness to the human body.
  • The church lost all its power, so people could all do whatever they wanted and be apart of any religion.

7. What was a 'Quack'?

  • A doctor who travelled and sold medicine.
  • A 'fake' doctor selling fake medicine.
  • Another term for a community doctor.
  • A person who stole medicine then sold it at a high price.

8. What is cauterisation?

  • Removing a small peice of the brain to cure 'madness'.
  • Drilling a hole into the head to let out bad spirits and releive a headache.
  • The sealing of a wound with hot oil to prevent infection and bloodloss.
  • Burning a wound shut with wax after it was sewn up.

9. How did Harvey demonstrate bloodflow and how the heart pumped blood around the body?

  • He cut open the chest of an alive dog to see its heart in function.
  • He killed a rat and showed its heart stopping.
  • He cut open the neck of an alive woman to show bloodflow.
  • He used a pigs heart and wine to mimic the process.

10. What is named after Louis Pasteur?

  • Pasteurization
  • Pastarisation
  • Pazarisation
  • Pasteurazation

11. What was one thing Islamic doctors invented?

  • The hypodermic needle
  • The plaster
  • The ice pack
  • The bloodletting funnel

12. What was in Pare's healing cream?

  • Egg, Turpentine, Rose oil
  • Rose oil, Figs, Wine
  • Egg, Chicken blood, Apple pulp
  • Lavender oil, Peach juice, Aloe vera gel

13. How was bloodletting preformed?

  • Your vein would be cut and a tube would be placed inside it to let the blood flow out.
  • Your arm would be cut off and the blood would pour into a bucket.
  • Your neck was slit at the side to let the blood out, then it was sown up.
  • The tip of your finger was pricked and a few drops of blood was let out.

14. What was a 'cure' for a sore throat provided by a wisewoman in the middle ages?

  • Tying a peice of string around a bunch of alive worms, then wearing it around your neck.
  • Cutting off the head of an alive eel then rubbing the warm blood on your neck.
  • Holding a warm potatoe wrapped in chicken feathers on your neck.
  • Drinking warm cow urine, goat milk and pear juice.

15. What did Galen get wrong?

  • He said the brain pumped blood around the body and the heart made it.
  • He thought the blood was made in the liver and the body used blood like fuel.
  • He thought humans had two hearts and pumped the blood around the body in different diretions.
  • He said blood was blue untill oxygenated, then it turned dark purple.

16. What were butchers put in prison for during the middle ages?

  • Selling crocodile and ostrich meat labelled as beef.
  • Selling putrid and rotten meat.
  • Selling 'fake' meat.
  • Selling poisonous meat.

17. What were people fined for in Medieval Britain to help improve public health?

  • Coughing
  • Shouting
  • Littering
  • Vomiting

18. Who created the idea of 'opposites'?

  • Hunter
  • Pare
  • Galen
  • Hippocrates
  • Versalius
  • Jenner
  • Harvey

19. Who first challenged Galen?

  • Hunter
  • Vesalius
  • Harvey
  • Hippocrates

20. Who was Galen?

  • Egyptian Witch Doctor
  • Chinese Doctor
  • Greek Physician
  • French Physician