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Art and Sci of medicine finalHerophilus and Erasistratus were two greek physicians who pioneered dissection of the
human body.
True or False - answerTrue
Herophilus and Erasistratus had a big long term influence
True or False - answertrue
Erasistratus is considered to be the first human ________
Herophilus is considered to be the founder of _______ - answer(E) physiologist
(H) human anatomy
What novel new idea did Varro have about the cause of disease?
a. Imbalances in bodily fluid cause disease
b. microscopic organisms cause disease
c. the gods cause disease - answerB. microscopic organisms cause disease
There is documentation that Varro wrote 620 books in his lifetime. Only 1 survives to
this day and it is called?
a. The Art of War
b. On Farming
c. The Human Body - answerb. On Farming
How did the political Climate in the time of Varro impact the science of medicine? -
answerVarro led many troops during political chaos. As a scholar, he experienced much
bloodshed firsthand to further his impact on the science of medicine.
The greek physician, Soranus, built on th work of Herophilus, who had lived and work a
full 4 centuries earlier.
True or False - answerTrue
One factor that contributed to recognition and respect of Soranus's work is that the
combative physician Galen seems to have held him in high regard.
True or False - answerTrue
,Galen was kind of a jerk who silenced many scholars at the time
Soranus is considered the founder of proctology as a medical field.
True or False - answerFalse!
he is founder of obstetrics and gynocololgy
Galen was physician to the gladiators, as well as the youth Commodus, of ancient
Rome.
True or False - answerTrue
What theory did Galen support, despite disproving the theory of his own experimental
work? - answerpneuma
What was Galen's personal characteristics like? - answerGalen was arrogant, confident,
and a trickster keeping secrets to improve his own image
What specific historical factor was at play in Europe at the time of al-Razi?
a. The Great depression
b. Translation to Latin
c. The dark ages - answerc. The dark ages
Who was the free thinker who first wrote "all men are created equal"?
a. Hippocrates
b. al-Nafis
c. al-Razi
d. Galen - answerc. al-Razi
al-Razi was from a region of Persia now known as:
a. Ireland
b. Greece
c. The Mediterranean
d. Iran - answerd. Iran
AL-Nafis disproved and updated many discoveries from what great predecessor?
a. Galen
b. Hippocrates
c. al-Razi - answera. Galen
, Al-Nafis was the FIRST to accurately describe the:
a. sensory system
b. pulmonary system
c. central nervous system - answerb. pulmonary system
al Nais made major discoveries about anatomy about 3 centuries before these same
discoveries appeared in the writings of European scholars?
True or False - answerTrue
Paracelsus is credited a the founder of medical chemistry
true or false - answertrue
Paracelsus was the first we know of to try to figure out the "salient ingredients" in
medicine (what made them effective)
true or false - answertrue
Who is the "medical first" that Adler said their life could be a movie?
a. Galen
b. Paracelsus
c. Hippocrates - answerb. Paracelsus
As a Student, Versalius would raid graves in order to find bodies to dissect
True or False - answerTrue
he talked his fellow students into doing it too
Versalius responded well to criticism in general
True or False - answerFalse
why were Versalius's anatomical observations more accurate than Galens?
a. Smarter
b. technology
c. dissections - answerc. dissections
Johann Weyer is sometimes called the "little doctor" in an unkind manner because...
a. he had a remarkably small head
b. he had lost his legs in war, thus shortening his stature
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