Ancient Medicine Exam 2 Questions With Complete
Solutions
_______ was the king who in his capital city established and
sponsored the Museum and the Library, both of which were
significant institutions in advancing scientific medicine Correct
Answers Ptolemy I
A farming manual written by Cato discusses the health of the
farmer's household, including mention of herbal remedies,
charts, charms, and the ritualistic performance of cures. Correct
Answers True
According to the Hippocratic text The Heart, the heart is shaped
like a Correct Answers pyramid
After three years of plague in Rome in 293 BC a Roman
embassy traveled to Epidaurus to bring back the god Asclepius,
who then entered Rome in the shape of a Correct Answers
snake
Alexandria and Museum Correct Answers - premiere
intellectual and scientific centers of the Mediterranean
- advancing knowledge of literature, geography, mathematics,
and medicine, in large part due to activity at the Museum, or the
temple of the Muses
All doctors in the Hippocratic tradition rejected the belief that
deities could affect human health Correct Answers False
Aristotle Correct Answers - 300's
, - "Asclepiad", son of court physician to King of Macedon
- Peripatetics
- Natural philosophy, logic, ethics, metaphysics, literary
criticism
- commitment to the fours (humors, qualities, elements)
- internal heat - role of heart and brain
- description of vascular system and heart
- taxonomy, logic, epistemology, ethics
Asclepiades of Bithynia Correct Answers most influential
practitioner of Late Republican Rome
eloquent Greek immigrant to Rome who believed the body
consisted of invisible particles and that health was a function of
the particles' free and balanced motion
Asclepieion Correct Answers - Temple of Asclepius
- medical center, free
- left votive offerings (red clay male white clay female)
= votive offering indicates what they were asking to heal
- may have had different specializations
Asclepius Correct Answers - Greek god of healing
- son of Apollo and Coronis
- among humans
- believed to have been born in Epidaurus
- bearded man in prime of life, rod, snake
Asclepius was considered the son of the god ______ Correct
Answers Apollo
Solutions
_______ was the king who in his capital city established and
sponsored the Museum and the Library, both of which were
significant institutions in advancing scientific medicine Correct
Answers Ptolemy I
A farming manual written by Cato discusses the health of the
farmer's household, including mention of herbal remedies,
charts, charms, and the ritualistic performance of cures. Correct
Answers True
According to the Hippocratic text The Heart, the heart is shaped
like a Correct Answers pyramid
After three years of plague in Rome in 293 BC a Roman
embassy traveled to Epidaurus to bring back the god Asclepius,
who then entered Rome in the shape of a Correct Answers
snake
Alexandria and Museum Correct Answers - premiere
intellectual and scientific centers of the Mediterranean
- advancing knowledge of literature, geography, mathematics,
and medicine, in large part due to activity at the Museum, or the
temple of the Muses
All doctors in the Hippocratic tradition rejected the belief that
deities could affect human health Correct Answers False
Aristotle Correct Answers - 300's
, - "Asclepiad", son of court physician to King of Macedon
- Peripatetics
- Natural philosophy, logic, ethics, metaphysics, literary
criticism
- commitment to the fours (humors, qualities, elements)
- internal heat - role of heart and brain
- description of vascular system and heart
- taxonomy, logic, epistemology, ethics
Asclepiades of Bithynia Correct Answers most influential
practitioner of Late Republican Rome
eloquent Greek immigrant to Rome who believed the body
consisted of invisible particles and that health was a function of
the particles' free and balanced motion
Asclepieion Correct Answers - Temple of Asclepius
- medical center, free
- left votive offerings (red clay male white clay female)
= votive offering indicates what they were asking to heal
- may have had different specializations
Asclepius Correct Answers - Greek god of healing
- son of Apollo and Coronis
- among humans
- believed to have been born in Epidaurus
- bearded man in prime of life, rod, snake
Asclepius was considered the son of the god ______ Correct
Answers Apollo
