PHAR1101 - TEST 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
What is the scientific method?
Answer:
Organised efforts to come up with explanations of nature, always modifying
and correcting these through systematic observations
Question:
When did the scientific method take off?
Answer:
Early middle ages (12th C)
Question:
Which egyptian god is the earliest 'medical' tradition related to?
Answer:
Imhotep
Question:
Which papyrus was used in ancient Egypt?
Answer:
The ebers papyrus
Question:
What was most treatments in the Ebers papyrus based on?
Answer:
Purging
Question:
What was the Ancient Egyptian treatment for asthma?
Answer:
Herbal smoke
Question:
What was the Ancient Egyptian treatment to force bowel movements?
Answer:
Milk and grains cooked with honey
Question:
What was the Ancient Egyptian treatment for various intestinal and eye
complaints?
Answer:
Ochre clays
Question:
What pattern does ancient egyptian medicine fit?
Answer:
Shamanism
, Question:
List 4 Fertile Crescent Civilisations
Answer:
Sumerians Babylonians Persians Semites
Question:
What does an ashipu healer do?
Answer:
Diagnose illness
Question:
What does an asu healer do?
Answer:
Provide remedies and treatment
Question:
What was liquorice used for as an ancient drug?
Answer:
Gastric disorders
Question:
What was opium and myrrh used for as an ancient drug?
Answer:
Pain relief and sleep
Question:
List 4 'countries' that were apart of Aegean culture
Answer:
Greece Macedon Crete Asia
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Asclepius?
Answer:
Physician-god of medicine
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Hygieia?
Answer:
Goddess of sanitation
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Panacea?
Answer:
Goddess of universal healing
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Apollo
Answer:
A major god of medicine and plagues
Question:
Who wrote the Corpus Hippocraticum?
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
What is the scientific method?
Answer:
Organised efforts to come up with explanations of nature, always modifying
and correcting these through systematic observations
Question:
When did the scientific method take off?
Answer:
Early middle ages (12th C)
Question:
Which egyptian god is the earliest 'medical' tradition related to?
Answer:
Imhotep
Question:
Which papyrus was used in ancient Egypt?
Answer:
The ebers papyrus
Question:
What was most treatments in the Ebers papyrus based on?
Answer:
Purging
Question:
What was the Ancient Egyptian treatment for asthma?
Answer:
Herbal smoke
Question:
What was the Ancient Egyptian treatment to force bowel movements?
Answer:
Milk and grains cooked with honey
Question:
What was the Ancient Egyptian treatment for various intestinal and eye
complaints?
Answer:
Ochre clays
Question:
What pattern does ancient egyptian medicine fit?
Answer:
Shamanism
, Question:
List 4 Fertile Crescent Civilisations
Answer:
Sumerians Babylonians Persians Semites
Question:
What does an ashipu healer do?
Answer:
Diagnose illness
Question:
What does an asu healer do?
Answer:
Provide remedies and treatment
Question:
What was liquorice used for as an ancient drug?
Answer:
Gastric disorders
Question:
What was opium and myrrh used for as an ancient drug?
Answer:
Pain relief and sleep
Question:
List 4 'countries' that were apart of Aegean culture
Answer:
Greece Macedon Crete Asia
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Asclepius?
Answer:
Physician-god of medicine
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Hygieia?
Answer:
Goddess of sanitation
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Panacea?
Answer:
Goddess of universal healing
Question:
Who was the Greek god, Apollo
Answer:
A major god of medicine and plagues
Question:
Who wrote the Corpus Hippocraticum?
