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Y9 Medieval Health Assessment

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Galen think happened to blood?

a)

Was made in the liver and burnt up in the muscles

b)

Went round the body pumped by the heart

c)

Went round the body pumped by the brain

d)

Sat still and never moved

2.

What did John of Ardenne make a painkiller out of?

a)

Opium and catnip

b)

Arsenic and old lace

c)

Opium and Hemlock

d)

Opium and Garlic

3.

What is a suture?

a)

A hot iron designed to seal wounds

b)

A type of biscuit

c)

A thread used to seal a wound

d)

A painkiller

4.

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

a)

10 tons

b)

25 tons

c)

50 tons

d)

100 tons

5.

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

a)

Axholme Priory

b)

Hirst Priory

c)

Castle Acre Priory

d)

St Oswald's Church

6.

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

a)

Placebo

b)

Stitching

c)

Hemorrhaging

d)

cauterise

7.

What did Muslim surgeons make sutures out of?

a)

Silk

b)

Iron

c)

Cotton

d)

China

8.

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

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Rhazes

c)

Avicenna

d)

Galen

9.

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

a)

Galen

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Rhazes

d)

Avicenna

10.

Which group of people cleaned streets and cess pits?

a)

Bin Men

b)

Muck Rakers

c)

Four-Humour Men

d)

Ordinary-Men