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Mesopotamian physicians are known as _______, and this means ________________. |
A-zu; "he who knows water" |
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What prescribes fees and severe penalties for malpractice in Mesopotamia? |
Code of Hammurabi |
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What period in Mesopotamia was characterized by medicine being made up of over 300 drugs from plants, trees, herbs, roots, seeds, juices, mineral substances, etc. (as a whole, 500 of mineral origins) |
King Ashurbanipal's period |
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What Egyptian text written around 2,500 BCE includes surgical advice such as the use of compression to stop bleeding, and had sections on diseases of the eye and the heart and other internal organs? |
Smith Papyrus |
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What Egyptian text written around 1,500 BCE contains about 900 recipes and prescriptions and deals with medicine in general but with spells and incantations used? |
Ebers Papyrus |
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What did Egyptians call their soul? |
Ka |
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Name 2 notable ancient physicians from Egypt. |
Sekhet' Enanach, Imhotep |
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Which emperor of China invented acupuncture and is credited for Chinese Medicine? |
Shen Nung |
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The Book of Medicine/Canon of Medicine of China is called |
Nei Ching |
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The Book of Medicine of China is attributed to Emperor ________. |
Huang Di Nei Ching |
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For the Chinese, what is described as a treatise of Febrile and other Diseases?
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Shang Han Za Bing Lun |
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The first half of Nei Ching, which means "Questions and Answers" |
Su Wen |
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The second half of Nei Ching, which means "Laws on Acupuncture" |
Zhen Jing; later renamed Ling Shu |
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What two theories in the traditional Chinese system are important branches dealing with physiological and pathological problems? |
Visceral organs theory; Channels and collaterals theory |
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What is the name of the Chinese physician who is known as a pioneer in medical examination and pulse feeling? |
Bian Que |
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What chapter of Nei Ching teaches that advanced thrombo-endarteritis can be treated by amputation of the blood vessel affected? |
Carbuncles |
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Who wrote the Treatise on Febrile and other Diseases? (Chinese) |
Zhang Zhongjing |
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What is known as the collection of prescriptions for the Chinese? |
Jin Qui Yao Lue |
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What are the four methods proposed by Zhang Zhongjing in his Treatise on Febrile and other Diseases? |
Examination, auscultation, inquiry, and pulse feeling |
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Zhang Zhongjing suggested the concept of ________ in diagnostics and was summed up as yin and yang |
Eight keys |
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When compiled, Nei Jing + four methods + eight keys = __________? |
Eight therapies |
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In Chinese Medicine what is described as the administration of drugs by rubbing over an affected region? |
Tapping |
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What is named "Materia Medica" in Chinese Medicine? |
Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing |
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What is named "Classics on DIfficulty" in Chinese Medicine? |
Nan Jing |
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Examination of an animal liver to forecast disease in Egypt is known as |
Hepatoscopy |
