Medieval-Renaissance medicine 1

Question 1

Which 2 diseases di Thomas Sydenham prove were separate?

Accepted Answer

Scarlet fever & measles

Question 2

Which Flemish physician disproved Galen’s idea that eating the wrong things caused disease and said not to test urine?

Accepted Answer

d) Jan Baptiste van Helmont

Question 3

How many mistakes did Vesalius find in Galen's work?

Accepted Answer

Over 300

Question 4

What did England's government consider but did not actually do during the Black Death?

Accepted Answer

Banning religious services & gatherings

Question 5

True or false- Renaissance means rebirth

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

The C16th is the 1600s - true or false?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

How many of Galen's books were printed during the C16th?

Accepted Answer

590

Question 8

Who discovered animalcules on teeth?

Accepted Answer

Anthony van Leewenhoek

Question 9

True or false, people still believed that miasma caused disease c1500-17000

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Which English doctor challenged Galen’s idea that personal factors e.g. weather, diet & humour balance caused disease?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Sydenham

Question 11

Which of these best defines animalcules?

Accepted Answer

The 1st recorded observation of bacteria on plaque

Question 12

When was the Renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

1500-1700

Question 13

Which cure for malaria did Thomas Sydenham discover from South America?

Accepted Answer

Chinchona

Question 14

When was the 1st printing house set up?

Accepted Answer

1440

Question 15

True or false, doctors still used the 4 Humours theory when treating patients c1500-1700?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Which group challenged the idea that God was responsible for everything including disease?

Accepted Answer

Humanists

Question 17

Doctor who criticised Galen but used Opposites theory to treat patients

Accepted Answer

Henri de Mandeville

Question 18

When was the Royal Society scientific journal created?

Accepted Answer

1665

Questions 18