Medicine in Britain 1250-Present part 1

Question 1

What was a flagellant?

Accepted Answer

Someone who whipped themselves as a cure

Question 2

What year was the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

1665

Question 3

When was the printing press invented?

Accepted Answer

1436

Question 4

What year was the Black Death?

Accepted Answer

1348

Question 5

What does miasma mean?

Accepted Answer

Bad smells causing disease

Question 6

What did Harvey discover?

Accepted Answer

How bloody pumped around the body

Question 7

What did Vesalius discover?

Accepted Answer

The anatomy of the human body

Question 8

Who came up with the theory of opposites?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 9

What controlled education and medicine 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Church

Question 10

Who ran hospitals 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Monks and Nuns

Question 11

Who came up with the theory of 4 humours?

Accepted Answer

Hippocrates

Question 12

What surgeries were common 1250-1500?

Accepted Answer

Cataracts, piles, tooth removal

Question 13

What was trephinning?

Accepted Answer

Cutting a hole in your skull

Question 14

What was an apothecary?

Accepted Answer

Chemist

Question 15

Which artist dissected bodies to paint them accurately?

Accepted Answer

Leonard Da Vinci

Question 16

How did they stop the spread of the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

Closed theatres, red crosses on doors, Road cleaners

Question 17

What were the 4 humours?

Accepted Answer

Black bile, yellow bile, blood, phlegm

Question 18

Where might you go for basic surgery?

Accepted Answer

Barber surgeon

Question 19

What did Charles II set up in the renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

Royal Society

Questions 19