Factors in Health Care: Religion

When did people know germs caused illness?

• Middle Ages

• 1666

• 1861

• 1875

What was the difference between a Medieval Christian and Islamic Hospitals?

• Christians tried to cure people; the Muslims just looked after them

• Christians built hospitals facing west, Muslims facing east

• Muslims tried to cure people; the Christians just looked after them

• Muslims had wards for only men and Christians had wards for men and women

Name a Medieval supernatural cure.

• Balancing the humours

• Pray

• Sweet smelling herbs

• Smallpox vaccine

Whose finger bone was a relic in Lincoln Cathedral?

• St Oswald

• Mary Madeline

• Little St Hugh

• St James

Who copied medical books in the Middle Ages?

• Monks

• Priests

• Doctors

• Nuns

Name a modern organisation with a religious basis that helps the homeless.

• Shelter

• NSPCC

• RSPCA

• Salvation Army

Which bishop encouraged people to meet and so spread the 1918 Flu Pandemic?

• Bishop of Zamora

• Bishop of Zaragoza

• Bishop of Bath & Wells

• Bishop of London

How many supernatural cures did Hippocrates mention in his book?

• None

• 25%

• 50%

• All of them

Hippocrates believed in the Four Humours. Which is not a humour?

• Blood

• Red Bile

• Yellow Bile

• Black Bile

Under the theory of the Four Humours, what made you ill?

• Humours being in balance

• Humours being out of balance

• Germs

• Bad smelling air