Medicine Through Time 1500-1700

Question 1

What does the Royal Society motto 'Nullius in verba" mean?

Accepted Answer

Take nobody's word for it

Question 2

Whose work did Vesalius challenge?

Accepted Answer

Galen

Question 3

What had previously happened to contagious patients?

Accepted Answer

Turned away

Question 4

What is Vesalius famous for?

Accepted Answer

Work on the Human anatomy

Question 5

What was Iatrochemistry?

Accepted Answer

A more scientific approach to creating medicine

Question 6

What helped end the Plague outbreak?

Accepted Answer

The Great Fire of London

Question 7

What did you now need to practice medicine?

Accepted Answer

A licence

Question 8

What did Sydenham encourage doctors to do?

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All of these

Question 9

What do we call the period of 1500-1700?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 10

When was the Great Plague?

Accepted Answer

1665

Question 11

What did most physicians still avoid?

Accepted Answer

Learning about/doing dissections

Question 12

What sort of creatures did Hooke draw?

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All of these

Question 13

How did the Royal Society help spread ideas?

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All of these

Question 14

What did Henry VIII close down?

Accepted Answer

Monasteries

Question 15

What did Sydenham prescribe for fatigue?

Accepted Answer

Roast Chicken and Wine

Question 16

What was Robert Hooke's most famous work?

Accepted Answer

Micrographia

Question 17

What was Vesalius given permission to do which was vital to his work?

Accepted Answer

Dissect human bodies

Question 18

What were banned during the Plague outbreak?

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All of these

Question 19

When Charles II lay dying, what methods did they use to treat him?

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All of these

Question 20

What was the name of the Royal Society's main publication?

Accepted Answer

Philosophical Transactions

Question 21

What did the village of Eyam help show?

Accepted Answer

Quarantine could stop the spread

Question 22

What was Thomas Sydenham's nickname?

Accepted Answer

English Hippocrates

Question 23

What was causing the plague to spread, unknown to the public?

Accepted Answer

Fleas

Question 24

What did large members of the public still believe carried disease?

Accepted Answer

Miasma

Question 25

What were fugitive sheets?

Accepted Answer

Copies of pages from medical textbooks

Question 26

How fraction of Londoners do we believe died from the Plague?

Accepted Answer

One fifth

Question 27

200,000 what were killed during the Plague?

Accepted Answer

Cats

Question 28

What did Hooke discover in plants?

Accepted Answer

Their cells

Question 29

What new invention inspired Harveys theory?

Accepted Answer

Mechanical Pumps

Question 30

What did Charles II order happen in London?

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All streets cleaned

Question 31

What was the Renaissance?

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A period of new ideas and new thinking

Question 32

What did Sydenham discover about Scarlett Fever and Measles?

Accepted Answer

They were different diseases

Question 33

How did new weaponry help surgeons?

Accepted Answer

Opened deeper wounds to study/heal

Question 34

What did Sydenham prescribe for Malaria?

Accepted Answer

Cinchona bark

Question 35

What did Lady Grace Mildmay do?

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Cared for and kept records of her patients

Question 36

What theory did Harvey propose about how blood moved from veins to arteries?

Accepted Answer

Through tiny passages

Question 37

Which theory did Robert Hooke confirm?

Accepted Answer

Leeuwenhoek's Animalcules

Question 38

What did Harvey prove?

Accepted Answer

That blood circulated in the body

Question 39

What did the Royal Society allow scientists to do?

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All of these

Question 40

What were pest houses?

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Hospitals that specialised in one disease

Question 41

What was a journeyman?

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Someone working under supervision

Question 42

What was Vesalius's most well know book called?

Accepted Answer

On the Fabric of the Human Body

Question 43

What were Quack Doctors?

Accepted Answer

Unqualified people selling cures

Question 44

How did Harvey prove blood only flowed to the heart?

Accepted Answer

He tried and failed to pump blood the other way

Question 45

What medical theory was still widely believed by the public?

Accepted Answer

Four Humours

Question 46

How were infected houses marked out during the Plague?

Accepted Answer

A red cross

Question 47

When was the Royal Society given its Royal Charter?

Accepted Answer

1662

Question 48

What factors helped Harvey make his discovery and make him famous?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 49

What university did Vesalius lecture at?

Accepted Answer

Padua

Question 50

What role did Robert Hooke have in the Royal Society?

Accepted Answer

Curator of Experiments

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