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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