Y9 Medieval Health Assessment

What did Galen think happened to blood?

• Was made in the liver and burnt up in the muscles

• Went round the body pumped by the heart

• Went round the body pumped by the brain

• Sat still and never moved

What did John of Ardenne make a painkiller out of?

• Opium and catnip

• Arsenic and old lace

• Opium and Hemlock

• Opium and Garlic

What is a suture?

• A hot iron designed to seal wounds

• A type of biscuit

• A thread used to seal a wound

• A painkiller

How much muck was being made every day in London in the 1340s?

• 10 tons

• 25 tons

• 50 tons

• 100 tons

In which monastery did monks use river water to wash away waste?

• Axholme Priory

• Hirst Priory

• Castle Acre Priory

• St Oswald's Church

What is the name used to sealing wounds with hot irons?

• Placebo

• Stitching

• Hemorrhaging

• cauterise

What did Muslim surgeons make sutures out of?

• Silk

• Iron

• Cotton

• China

Name of a Muslim doctor who identified the difference between smallox and measles.

• Hippocrates

• Rhazes

• Avicenna

• Galen

Which  Islamic doctor who worked out the body had one pulse, not every organ is own?

• Galen

• Hippocrates

• Rhazes

• Avicenna

Which group of people cleaned streets and cess pits?

• Bin Men

• Muck Rakers

• Four-Humour Men

• Ordinary-Men