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Who came up with the idea of clinical observation? |
Hippocrates |
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What was the Romans 'big idea'? |
Public health |
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What were the Romans public health schemes? |
Public toilets, public baths, sewers, clean water (aqueducts) , public fountains, free hospitals for soldiers |
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What happened between ad400 and ad500 to the Roman Empire??? |
It collapsed and war broke out between the countries that were part of it |
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Who develops anaesthetics? Which gas did they use? What year? |
James Simpson, chloroform, 1847 |
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Positive effects of anaesthetics in nineteenth and twentieth centuries? |
Patients felt no pain, allowed doctors to do more complex operations as patients didn't die from shock of pain |
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Positive effects of anaesthetics in nineteenth and twentieth centuries? |
Patients felt no pain, allowed doctors to do more complex operations as patients didn't die from shock of pain |
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Negative effects of the development of anaesthetics in surgery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?? |
Patients could die from too much chloroform! Death rate went up as deeper operations meant deeper infections |
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Which period came after/crossed over with the prehistoric period?? |
Ancient Egypt/ greece |
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Which period came after/crossed over with the prehistoric period?? |
Ancient Egypt/ greece |
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Which period followed ancient Egypt? |
The Roman Empire |
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What era followed the Roman Empire? |
The Middle Ages |
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What era followed the Roman Empire? |
The Middle Ages |
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What era followed the Middle Ages? |
Te Renaissance- rebirth |
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What era follows the Renaissance? |
19th and 20th centuries |
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In ancient Egypt what was embalming? |
Preserving the body for burial |
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In ancient Egypt what was embalming? |
Preserving the body for burial |
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What is purging? |
Vomiting or emptying the bowels |
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What did the Egyptians do to keep clean? |
They used baths ( especially when worshipping) , they used toilets, they slept under mosquito nets |
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List ancient Egypts key developments... |
Farming, religion, writing, tools, doctors , cities, trade |
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In ancient Egypt: what were specialist doctors?? |
They were a cross between priests and doctors but became quite specialised in treating particular parts of the body |
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Who was Imhotep? |
The Pharos doctor |
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Did the Egyptians believe in natural or supernatural treatments? |
BOTH! |
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Name 2 Egyptian treatments... |
Natural treatments from herbs, plants, minerals and animal parts ( honey as antiseptic)
Spells charms and prayers were used |
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Who was Asclepius? |
The Greek god of medicine |
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What were the 4 humours? |
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile |
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What was the Greeks big idea? How long did this idea affect medicine for? |
The four humours...1500 years! |
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What was allowed in the Alexandria that wasn't allowed anywhere else in the Greek empire? |
Dissection |
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Name a similarity between Greek and Roman medicine... |
They both... -used four humours -used clinical observation -believed in gods -herbal home remedies by women |
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Name a similarity between Greek and Roman medicine... |
They both... -used four humours -used clinical observation -believed in gods -herbal home remedies by women |
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Greek and roman medicine...what were the differences? |
Romans believed in bad air (smells) causing disease
Romans didn't like doctors, they believed in and preferred prevention rather than cure which lead to public health |
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How did having the big army lead to improvements in health? |
It meant they had army surgeons who treated injured soldiers and focused on keeping them healthy |
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How did having the big army lead to improvements in health? |
It meant they had army surgeons who treated injured soldiers and focused on keeping them healthy |
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Why did conditions and diseases spread quickly in roman times? |
People loved cramped together in big cities |
