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Ancient Greece

BGS History GCSE Revision Tests. Ancient Greece. 1) Who was the most important doctor in ancient Greece?. HIPPOCRATES. 2) Which medical theory did he develop?. SENTOD The Theory of the Four Humours. 3) Was this natural or supernatural?. SENTOD!! Natural!!.

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Ancient Greece

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  1. BGS History GCSE Revision Tests Ancient Greece

  2. 1) Who was the most important doctor in ancient Greece? HIPPOCRATES

  3. 2) Which medical theory did he develop? SENTOD The Theory of the Four Humours

  4. 3) Was this natural or supernatural? SENTOD!! Natural!!

  5. 4) How did this theory explain illness? KEY WORD = BALANCE • The key to good health was to have all your humours balanced. If you were unwell it was because you had too much or too little of one humour.

  6. 5) Name a treatment based on the Theory of the Four Humours? Bleeding Or, a patient with too much yellow bile might be made to vomit.

  7. 6) What was another key idea of the Greek doctors? CLINICAL OBSERVATION • Taking regular exercise and eating a healthy diet.

  8. 7) Who was the Greek god of healing? ASCLEPIOS

  9. 8) What buildings were built in his honour, and what happened inside them? Asclepions • Patients were put in a trance-like state, and special healing ceremonies were performed.

  10. 9) Where in the Greek world was a huge library established? ALEXANDRIA

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