HAM Exam 2025-Questions with 100% Correct
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why doctors may have imagined the wandering womb - ✔✔- may have observed uterine
prolapse + imagined movement
- one body model: anything not in male body is strange
remedies for wandering womb - ✔✔- diaita
- fumigation
- uterine magic
fumigation - ✔✔crouching over burning pot of smells + steam goes into vagina to lure womb
into place, could've been for days
uterine magic - ✔✔- supernatural attempts to control womb opening or closing
- spells/curses
- amulets
diaita for women - ✔✔- marriage expectations
- sexual intercourse
- exercise + food
regimen for young women author - ✔✔rufus of ephesus
regimen for young women - ✔✔heat, meat, wine, and exercise are all fine for women until
puberty, then it creates excess sexual desire
,hysteria - ✔✔- justification for surveillance + control of female bodies
- disease "without a name"
- does not exist in ancient world nor hippocratic corpus
- uterine suffocation
hystera - ✔✔womb
hysteria + uterine suffocation - ✔✔- uterine suffocation not called hysteria
- pnix
- fatal condition caused by suffocating uterus
- symptoms broadened out to become hysteria
pnix - ✔✔- strangulation/suffocation
- when womb turns, if opening hits organ it can't breathe
- or if it hits throat then woman can't breathe
hippocrates on girls - ✔✔- wandering blood
- causes depression + suicidal thoughts
- cure: get married quick
wandering blood in hippocrates on girls - ✔✔if uterus starts accumulated blood + it can't
come out without sex breaking down flesh, it goes to brain or around the body
chreia (necessity) - ✔✔mistranslated to chroia (skin color)
chlorosis - ✔✔instead of not carrying out her duties like said in hippocrates on girls, due to
mistranslation, the disease causes women to change skin color to green
,why is the skin color green in chlorosis? - ✔✔the ancient idea of a lovesick lover being
greener than grass
soranus - ✔✔- greek doctor practicing in rome
- methodist (moderate)
what sect did soranus believe a midwife should be? - ✔✔- methodist
- not empiricist or dogmatist
soranus midwife requirements - ✔✔- literate to read treatises
- strong + able limbs, soft hands, long fingers
- free from superstition
- free from greed
were midwives paid? - ✔✔yes, they were expected to be free from greed
identity of midwives - ✔✔- decent status due to literacy
- greek (soranus was greek)
childbirth preparation - ✔✔olive oil, warm water, pads, soft sponges, wool, bandages,
pillow, things to smell to regain consciousness, midwife stool, room, 2 beds
childbirth position - ✔✔sitting
childbirth chair - ✔✔chair with hole in bottom brought by midwife
, other parts of childbirth - ✔✔- labor + delivery
- swaddling
3 tests of the midwife - ✔✔- if baby cries loudly = good, weak or lack of cry = bad
- if arms + legs stretch easily = good
- baby should react to being touched
exposure - ✔✔if baby fails midwife tests then they are put out to die or be rescued + raised
as a slave
baby food - ✔✔- wine + hydromel (honey + water)
- we now know that bacteria in honey is bad for infants
colostrum - ✔✔- first milk produced by mother
- more protein, lower in sugar, thicker
- ancient doctors thought dangerous, but full of antibodies
breastfeeding - ✔✔- below roman women to breastfeed own baby
- breastmilk transfers values to baby
wet nurse (soranus) - ✔✔- 20-40 yrs old (older woman)
- 2-3 births
- health + body specifications
- self controlled, sympathetic, not ill-tempered
- greek
ancient contraception - ✔✔- actions taken during sex
Answers
why doctors may have imagined the wandering womb - ✔✔- may have observed uterine
prolapse + imagined movement
- one body model: anything not in male body is strange
remedies for wandering womb - ✔✔- diaita
- fumigation
- uterine magic
fumigation - ✔✔crouching over burning pot of smells + steam goes into vagina to lure womb
into place, could've been for days
uterine magic - ✔✔- supernatural attempts to control womb opening or closing
- spells/curses
- amulets
diaita for women - ✔✔- marriage expectations
- sexual intercourse
- exercise + food
regimen for young women author - ✔✔rufus of ephesus
regimen for young women - ✔✔heat, meat, wine, and exercise are all fine for women until
puberty, then it creates excess sexual desire
,hysteria - ✔✔- justification for surveillance + control of female bodies
- disease "without a name"
- does not exist in ancient world nor hippocratic corpus
- uterine suffocation
hystera - ✔✔womb
hysteria + uterine suffocation - ✔✔- uterine suffocation not called hysteria
- pnix
- fatal condition caused by suffocating uterus
- symptoms broadened out to become hysteria
pnix - ✔✔- strangulation/suffocation
- when womb turns, if opening hits organ it can't breathe
- or if it hits throat then woman can't breathe
hippocrates on girls - ✔✔- wandering blood
- causes depression + suicidal thoughts
- cure: get married quick
wandering blood in hippocrates on girls - ✔✔if uterus starts accumulated blood + it can't
come out without sex breaking down flesh, it goes to brain or around the body
chreia (necessity) - ✔✔mistranslated to chroia (skin color)
chlorosis - ✔✔instead of not carrying out her duties like said in hippocrates on girls, due to
mistranslation, the disease causes women to change skin color to green
,why is the skin color green in chlorosis? - ✔✔the ancient idea of a lovesick lover being
greener than grass
soranus - ✔✔- greek doctor practicing in rome
- methodist (moderate)
what sect did soranus believe a midwife should be? - ✔✔- methodist
- not empiricist or dogmatist
soranus midwife requirements - ✔✔- literate to read treatises
- strong + able limbs, soft hands, long fingers
- free from superstition
- free from greed
were midwives paid? - ✔✔yes, they were expected to be free from greed
identity of midwives - ✔✔- decent status due to literacy
- greek (soranus was greek)
childbirth preparation - ✔✔olive oil, warm water, pads, soft sponges, wool, bandages,
pillow, things to smell to regain consciousness, midwife stool, room, 2 beds
childbirth position - ✔✔sitting
childbirth chair - ✔✔chair with hole in bottom brought by midwife
, other parts of childbirth - ✔✔- labor + delivery
- swaddling
3 tests of the midwife - ✔✔- if baby cries loudly = good, weak or lack of cry = bad
- if arms + legs stretch easily = good
- baby should react to being touched
exposure - ✔✔if baby fails midwife tests then they are put out to die or be rescued + raised
as a slave
baby food - ✔✔- wine + hydromel (honey + water)
- we now know that bacteria in honey is bad for infants
colostrum - ✔✔- first milk produced by mother
- more protein, lower in sugar, thicker
- ancient doctors thought dangerous, but full of antibodies
breastfeeding - ✔✔- below roman women to breastfeed own baby
- breastmilk transfers values to baby
wet nurse (soranus) - ✔✔- 20-40 yrs old (older woman)
- 2-3 births
- health + body specifications
- self controlled, sympathetic, not ill-tempered
- greek
ancient contraception - ✔✔- actions taken during sex
