Health Science Foundation Ancient History -Middle Ages

Ancient Chinese medicine would incorporate (multiple answers)

• Acupuncture

• Leeches

• Prayer

• Channel your Chi/Holistic medicine

During the Dark Ages, which began after the fall of the Roman Empire, medicine emphasis was primarily

• Leeches

• saving your soul by prayer

• acupuncture

• witch doctors

Ancient Greeks were known for (multiple answers)

• massage and art therapy

• believing that disease was from natural causes

• using herbs and plants as medicine

• being the first to observe the human body and the effects of disease

In primitive times, medicine (multiple answers)

• incorporated the use of herbs and plants as medicine

• thought illness was a punishment from the God/gods

• involved the use of dissections

• thrived due to sewer systems

Ancient Romans, (multiple answers)

• established hospitals to care for their soldiers in homes

• focused primarily on prayer to God

• used acupuncture

• built sewers and aqueducts for public health and sanitation

During the Middle Ages (multiple answers)

• acupuncture was popular

• prayer was popular

• medical advances occured by using information established by the Greeks and Romans

• the Bubonic Plague killed 75% of the European population

Ancient Egyptians (multiple answers)

• learned how to preserve bodies by mummification

• practiced dissections of the human body to progress knowledge

• used physicians who were priests

• treated illness with bloodletting

Trephination is a primitive treatment for headaches that would involve

• taking herbs

• tribal prayer

• having a hole drilled into the skill to release pressure

• bloodletting

Egyptians used leeches.

• True

• False

Hippocrates (multiple answers)

• is known as the "Father of Medicine" and laid the foundation for ALL future doctors.

• invented a stethoscope

• gave us the first medical oath for physicians to "do not harm"

• Was from Rome