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1. Question #1 What is the first time period in the History of Medicine?

2. Question #2 What is trepanning?

3. Question #3 What treatment did Prehistoric people develop for broken legs?

4. Question #4 What treatment did Prehistoric people develop for burns?

5. Question # 5 How can historians overcome the problem of a lack of written evidence when trying to find out about Prehistoric medicine?

6. Question #6 What did Prehistoric people believe gave Medicine Men the power to heal?

7. Question #7 What development is used to define the point at which a society stops being Prehistoric?

8. Question #8 What is the second time period in the History of Medicine?

9. Question #9 What name is given to the written language of the Egyptians?

10. Question #10 How did mummification help the Egyptians develop their understanding of the human body?

11. Question #11 What is the “Theory of the Channels”?

12. Question #12 Why was Thoth important to medicine in Ancient Egypt?

13. Question #13 Why did Egyptians where a Scarab Beetle around their necks?

14. Question #14 Which group of people in Egyptian society shaved all the hair off their bodies every week?

15. Question # 15 What new material did the Egyptians use to make surgical instruments?

16. Question #16 Why was Imhotep?

17. Question #17 What treatments did the Egyptians develop to deal with illnesses caused by “blocked channels”?

18. Question #18 Why did Egyptian doctors have access to a wider range of herbal ingredients for their medicines than Prehistoric healers?

19. Question #19 What are the Papyrus Ebers and the Papyrus Edwin Smith?

20. Question #20 What is the third period in the History of Medicine?

21. Question #21 Who was Asclepios

22. Question #22 What were the names of the two daughters of Asclepios?

23. Question #23 Which animal helped Asclepios to treat his patients?

24. Question #24 What is an Asclepeion?

25. Question # 25 List five features of an Asclepeion?

26. Question #26 Who was Hippocrates?

27. Question #27 What is the Hippocratic Collection or Corpus?

28. Question #28 What is? the Hippocratic Oath

29. Question #29 Why is Hippocrates known as “The father of medicine”?

30. Question #30 What is involved in the Hippocratic technique of “Clinical Observation”?

31. Question #31 Why is Alexandria important in the history of medicine?

32. Question #32 Why did Egyptian and Greek religion oppose dissection of human bodies?

33. Question #33 What is the fourth period in the History of Medicine?

34. Question #34 Who was Claudius Galen?

35. Question # 35 Where did Galen train?

36. Question #36 What was Galen’s first job?

37. Question #37 What did Galen prove about the body using a pig?

38. Question #38 Why did Galen get so much of his human anatomy wrong?

39. Question #39 Which Greek god of healing did the Romans also use following a plague outbreak in Rome?

40. Question #40 Why did the Romans develop such massive public health system in their cities?

41. Question #41 List five features of the Roman Public Health System.

42. Question #42 What did the Roman build all over Europe which helped to communicate information about medical discoveries?

43. Question #43 What was Galen’s “Theory of the Opposites”?

44. Question #44 Why did the Romans build their cities away from swamps?

45. Question #45 What did Roman surgeons use as an anaesthetic?

46. Question #46 What did Roman surgeons use as an antiseptic?

47. Question #47 What is a valatudariana?

48. Question #48 What happened to the medical knowledge of the Romans in Western Europe when the Empire fell after 410AD?

49. Question #49 What are the three different names given to the fifth time period in the History of Medicine?

50. Question #50 Which Roman doctor’s ideas dominated medicine after the fall of the Roman Empire for over 1000 years?