PHAR1101 QUIZZES WEEKS 1-4 | QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | LATEST 2025 UPDATE | SCORED A+
What two elements of modern medicine can we find in the Hippocratic corpus
of writings? Answer - Description of disease duration and careful clinical
observations
The Anglo Saxon eye salve recipe recreated in 2015 consisted of what
ingredients? Answer - Onion, leek, ox gall, wine
The scientific method consists of BLANK efforts to come up with BLANK of
nature. What are the missing words? Answer - Organised, explanations
What famous book on medicines was written by ancient Roman physician
Galen? Answer - De Compositione Medicamentorum
How does the scientific method cycle end? Answer - Develop general theory or
refine hypothesis
The practice of skull-boring for medical purposes is called? Answer -
Trepanation
Where does the scientific method usually begin? Answer - With a set of
observations
,Who wrote the ancient medical handbook Corpus Hippocraticum? Answer -
We can t say for sure
In the Ebers Papyrus, most medical treatments employ which of these
approaches? Answer - Purging of toxins
Which body fluid was NOT usually taken into account by humoral theories of
disease? Answer - Urine
What psychoactive substance can be extracted from the peyote cactus? Answer
- Mescalin
Who was Otzi? Answer - The 'ice-man' found frozen in the Tyrol region
Which of these is an advantage of the scientific method? Answer - It saves a lot
of unnecessary repetition
How did humoral theory probably originate? Answer - Misplaced clinical
observations
When anthropologists identify traditional medicine in a modern culture, what
does that tell us about the ancient culture that preceded it? Answer - We
cannot authoritatively connect this to a preceding culture
When we find plant remains in ancient human teeth, what can we assume?
Answer - That they may simply have been consumed as food
Why does modern medicine try to find links with the past? Answer - Because
we have a nineteenth century hangover
, Who was the author of the first authoritative Western pharmacopeia? Answer
- Dioscorides
What was flowers of copper ? Answer - The green verdigris that forms on
copper
In 1980, Nubian human remains were found to have large doses of what
natural antibiotic? Answer - tetracycline
What did Paracelsus believe should be used to treat syphilis? Answer -
Mercury
The four ELEMENTS of classical Western humoral theory are: Answer - Earth,
Air, Fire, Water
What are the four classical HUMORS in the Western medical tradition? Answer
- Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
Ancient recorded medical practices shows signs of observation, measurement
(sometimes), practical skills, and technology. Did they use the scientific
method? Answer - No, there is no evidence surviving to suggest that
Aspirin's key ingredient is: Answer - Salicylic acid
According to Lecture 2, how were manuscripts used as medicine in some parts
of the ancient world? Answer - Spells were written on paper and then
swallowed
ANSWERS | LATEST 2025 UPDATE | SCORED A+
What two elements of modern medicine can we find in the Hippocratic corpus
of writings? Answer - Description of disease duration and careful clinical
observations
The Anglo Saxon eye salve recipe recreated in 2015 consisted of what
ingredients? Answer - Onion, leek, ox gall, wine
The scientific method consists of BLANK efforts to come up with BLANK of
nature. What are the missing words? Answer - Organised, explanations
What famous book on medicines was written by ancient Roman physician
Galen? Answer - De Compositione Medicamentorum
How does the scientific method cycle end? Answer - Develop general theory or
refine hypothesis
The practice of skull-boring for medical purposes is called? Answer -
Trepanation
Where does the scientific method usually begin? Answer - With a set of
observations
,Who wrote the ancient medical handbook Corpus Hippocraticum? Answer -
We can t say for sure
In the Ebers Papyrus, most medical treatments employ which of these
approaches? Answer - Purging of toxins
Which body fluid was NOT usually taken into account by humoral theories of
disease? Answer - Urine
What psychoactive substance can be extracted from the peyote cactus? Answer
- Mescalin
Who was Otzi? Answer - The 'ice-man' found frozen in the Tyrol region
Which of these is an advantage of the scientific method? Answer - It saves a lot
of unnecessary repetition
How did humoral theory probably originate? Answer - Misplaced clinical
observations
When anthropologists identify traditional medicine in a modern culture, what
does that tell us about the ancient culture that preceded it? Answer - We
cannot authoritatively connect this to a preceding culture
When we find plant remains in ancient human teeth, what can we assume?
Answer - That they may simply have been consumed as food
Why does modern medicine try to find links with the past? Answer - Because
we have a nineteenth century hangover
, Who was the author of the first authoritative Western pharmacopeia? Answer
- Dioscorides
What was flowers of copper ? Answer - The green verdigris that forms on
copper
In 1980, Nubian human remains were found to have large doses of what
natural antibiotic? Answer - tetracycline
What did Paracelsus believe should be used to treat syphilis? Answer -
Mercury
The four ELEMENTS of classical Western humoral theory are: Answer - Earth,
Air, Fire, Water
What are the four classical HUMORS in the Western medical tradition? Answer
- Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
Ancient recorded medical practices shows signs of observation, measurement
(sometimes), practical skills, and technology. Did they use the scientific
method? Answer - No, there is no evidence surviving to suggest that
Aspirin's key ingredient is: Answer - Salicylic acid
According to Lecture 2, how were manuscripts used as medicine in some parts
of the ancient world? Answer - Spells were written on paper and then
swallowed
