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Medicine through Time

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a common practice used in the Dark Middle Ages that is still used today?

a)

Maggot Therapy

b)

Checking reflexes

c)

Annual checkups

d)

Needling

2.

What were some major developments in medicine during the Dark Ages?

a)

Hospitals

b)

C-Section

c)

Anatomical

d)

All of the above

3.

What were some major epidemics during the Dark Middle Ages?

a)

Black Plague

b)

Smallpox

c)

All of the above

d)

None of the above

4.

What were the 4 humours that the ancient Greeks believed were the cause of all illness?

a)

Blood

b)

Phlegm

c)

Yellow Bile

d)

Black Bile

e)

All of the above

5.

What ancient group began the development of sanitary systems by building sewers and aqueducts?

a)

Egyptians

b)

Chinese

c)

Greeks

d)

Romans

6.

What time period is often called the “rebirth of the science of medicine.”

a)

Dark Ages

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Renaissance

d)

17th Century

7.

The Bubonic Plague (black death) was known as a(n):

a)

epidemic

b)

pandemic

c)

quarantine

d)

episode

8.
Which group advanced their knowledge of human anatomy by dissection and embalming?
a)
Greek
b)
Chinese
c)
Egyptian 
d)
Roman
9.
Ancient people believed that _____ caused illness and death. 
a)
Germs
b)
Evil spirits
c)
Bacteria
d)
Food
10.
Who is known as the Father of Medicine?
a)
Rhazes
b)
Hippocrates
c)
Aristotle
d)
Cladius Galen
11.

What 20th century drug was developed to treat Diabetes?

a)

Penicillin

b)

Sulfa Drugs

c)

Morphine

d)

Insulin

12.
Which individual discovered the heart pumped blood around the body?
a)
Harvey
b)
Sydenham
c)
Vesalius
d)
Pare
13.
What does alchemy mean?
a)
first form of chemistry
b)
first form of biology
c)
first form of physics
d)
first firm of physicians
14.
•Believed illness and disease caused by spirits/demons
a)
Primitive Times
b)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
c)
China 1700BC-220AD
d)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
15.
•Physicians were priests (temples used as hospitals) •Called on gods for healing
a)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
b)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
c)
China 1700BC-220AD
d)
Roman  753BC-410AD
16.
•Bloodletting or leeches used as medical treatment
a)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
b)
China 1700BC-220AD
c)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
d)
Primitive Times
17.
•First accurate health records-knowledge limited to the educated (recorded on stone)
a)
Primitive Times
b)
China 1700BC-220AD
c)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
d)
Roman  753BC-410AD
18.
•Use medicines, would splint fractures
a)
China 1700BC-220AD
b)
Primitive Times
c)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
d)
Roman  753BC-410AD
19.
•Believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body
•Today holistic health methods focus on treating the body as a whole
a)
Primitive Times
b)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
c)
China 1700BC-220AD
d)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
20.
•First to use acupuncture – needles puncture skin to relieve pain and congestion
a)
China 1700BC-220AD
b)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
c)
Primitive Times
d)
Roman  753BC-410AD
21.
•Medicine was an art not just a profession
a)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
b)
Roman  753BC-410AD
c)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
d)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
22.
•Hippocrates – Father of Medicine- wrote the standard of ethics called the Oath of Hippocrates
•Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath today upon graduation
Believed diseases related to natural cause (not supernatural spirits and demons)
a)
China 1700BC-220AD
b)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
c)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
d)
Roman  753BC-410AD
23.
•Stressed diet and cleanliness to prevent disease. Lack of sanitation caused disease. 
a)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
b)
China 1700BC-220AD
c)
Roman  753BC-410AD
d)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
24.
•Learned from Greeks and developed sanitation systems.  Aqueducts and sewers. 
a)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
b)
Roman  753BC-410AD
c)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
d)
Primitive Times
25.
•Early hospitals developed-physicians would care for the sick in their home
a)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
b)
Roman  753BC-410AD
c)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
d)
China 1700BC-220AD
26.
•Wore death mask with beaks filled with spices. Believed it would keep them safe from infection and bad odor. 
a)
Roman  753BC-410AD
b)
China 1700BC-220AD
c)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
d)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
27.
•Began after the fall of the Roman Empire.
a)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
b)
VACCINES
c)
Renaissance Medicine  1350-1650AD
d)
16th and 17th Centuries
28.
•Medicine was practiced only in convents and monasteries for approx. 1,000 years.
a)
Renaissance Medicine  1350-1650AD
b)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
c)
Roman  753BC-410AD
d)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
29.
•God, prayer, and divine intervention was how a patient was treated
a)
Primitive Times
b)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
c)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
d)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
30.
•Epidemics which caused millions of deaths: smallpox, dysentery, typhus and plague
a)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
b)
Roman  753BC-410AD
c)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
d)
Renaissance Medicine  1350-1650AD
31.
•Rebirth of science of medicine and learning
a)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
b)
Roman  753BC-410AD
c)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
d)
Renaissance Medicine  1350-1650AD
32.
•Universities and medical schools (Education and research)
a)
Renaissance Medicine  1350-1650AD
b)
Roman  753BC-410AD
c)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
d)
China 1700BC-220AD
33.
•Dissection of the body accepted (increased understanding of anatomy)
a)
Renaissance Medicine  1350-1650AD
b)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
c)
Roman  753BC-410AD
d)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
34.
Emphasis was placed on saving the saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited
a)
Renaissance Medicine  1350-1650AD
b)
Dark Ages 400-800AD
c)
Greeks1200BC-200BC
d)
Egypt 3000BC-300BC
35.

Known as the founder of modern nursing

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Florence Nightingale

c)

Elizabeth Blackwell

d)

Dorothea Dix

36.

Created aqueducts to carry clean water to cities

a)

Egyptians

b)

Greeks

c)

Romans

d)

Chinese

37.

First to maintain accurate health records

a)

Egyptians

b)

Greeks

c)

Romans

d)

Primitive times

38.

Monitored pulse to determine the condition of the body

a)

Egyptians

b)

Greeks

c)

Chinese

d)

Romans

39.

A pandemic of the bubonic plague killed much of the population

a)

Primitive Times

b)

Middle Ages

c)

Renaissance

d)

16th century

40.

Publication of medical books and the printing press

a)

Renaissance

b)

16th Century

c)

18th Century

d)

20th Century

41.

Surgeons in the 19th century included

a)

plumbers

b)

janitors

c)

barbers

d)

inventors

42.

How has medicine changed since the 1800s?

a)

More women are doctors/Surgery conditions are more sterile.

b)

It hasn’t changed much.

c)

People don’t boil water anymore.

d)

Medicine doesn’t include onions anymore.

43.

What were common practices of medicine during the 1800s?

a)

Chickenpox vaccinations using chicken eggs

b)

Strortchring

c)

Using ether for anesthesia

d)

Alcohol for antiseptics

44.

In the middle ages healing potions came from...

a)

Local witch

b)

Local wizard

c)

Local priest

d)

Your mom

45.

Even though they've been used for centuries in medicine for many purposes, the FDA approved them for medical use in 2004

a)

Dogs

b)

Leeches

c)

Slugs

d)

Flu shots

46.

During the Renaissance Period, who could usually use hospitals?

a)

Only the King & Queen

b)

Monks & Nuns

c)

The poor

d)

The rich

47.

What major epidemic was named the was nicknamed “The Black Death”?

a)

Smallpox

b)

Bubonic Plague

c)

Aids

d)

Hamilton's Plague

48.

During the Renaissance Period, who was the famous physician?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Leonardo Da Vinci

d)

King Henry VIII