HAM FINAL STUDY EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
A+ GRADED A+ 2025/2026
✔✔regimen in acute diseases audience - ✔✔fellow doctors to alter patient prescriptions
✔✔evidence for regimen in acute diseases audience - ✔✔- anatomical language
- terms from everyday practice (crisis)
- specific instructions
✔✔regimen in acute diseases digestion - ✔✔idea of digestion not from dissection, but
from partially digested food of animals
✔✔rival medical schools in cos and cnidus - ✔✔- dedicated to asclepius but differing
ideas
- cnidus legends says hippocrates burned everything in cnidus
- founded by euryphon
✔✔euryphon - ✔✔- from podalirius and machaon
- evidence of existence from papyrus anonymus londinensis
✔✔euryphon + papyrus anonymus londinensis - ✔✔untrustworthy for saying that
digestion makes everything in the body
✔✔cnidan opinions - ✔✔- all doctors collaborated to add to text opinions from cnidus
- hippocrates burned this text
✔✔cnidan criticisms - ✔✔- prognosis
- 'opening medicine'
- disease classification
✔✔cnidan prognosis - ✔✔- too trusting of patients
- patients lie and dont know abt their bodies
- contrasts with hippocratic prognosis
✔✔cnidan 'opening medicine' - ✔✔- give patient milk as soon as disease starts
- not individualized, making a change without allow disease to take its course
✔✔cnidan disease classification - ✔✔- cnidans dont look at underlying similarities
between illnesses
- too many names
- improper classification
✔✔symptom (change) - ✔✔greater symptom = more change from norm
,✔✔treatment (change) - ✔✔regimen changes
✔✔cause of disease (change) - ✔✔abrupt diaita change
✔✔principle of opposition in hippocratic medicine - ✔✔sudden complete shift can cause
illness, must be gradual
✔✔change in excess - ✔✔bad
✔✔metabole - ✔✔change (in behavior)
✔✔acute disease - ✔✔- comes and goes
- sudden bursts of intensity
✔✔chronic disease - ✔✔long term
✔✔4 acute diseases - ✔✔- pleurisy
- pneumonia
- brain-fever
- causus
✔✔phrenitis (brain-fever) - ✔✔- general term for inflammation
- inflammation of mind + body
- symptoms: fever + madness/raving
✔✔causus fever - ✔✔- burning fever
- phrenitis without madness
✔✔pleurisy (later: lung-disease) - ✔✔- pleuris: rib/side
- pain in one's side
- empyema
✔✔empyema - ✔✔gathering/swelling of pus under skin
✔✔penumonia - ✔✔- pain on both sides
- later, a lung disease
✔✔barley gruel - ✔✔- perfect treatment of disease
- adaptable, making regime change gradual
✔✔barley gruel qualities - ✔✔- can be thick or thin
- bridge between food and drink
- cold
- can be moist or dry
, ✔✔dangers of barley gruel - ✔✔- must match with other diaita advice
- thick gruel for over a week = too much thick sputum that sucks up moisture +
suffocates
- no cold feet since that means death
✔✔water - ✔✔- no benefits
- enlarges spleen
- river water does not soothe cough nor promote expectoration of sputum
✔✔hydromel - ✔✔- better than water
- water + honey
- food + liquid = gentler
✔✔oxymel - ✔✔- drink this over vinegar
- vinegar dangerous for pregnancy
- vinegar + honey
✔✔wine - ✔✔- drink in moderation
- types of wine, sweetness
✔✔excess of wine - ✔✔- medical problem
- drunkenness, violent headache or derangement of mind
- water or extremely diluted wine should be given here
✔✔is medicine a techne? - ✔✔- originally for something practical
- abstract things came to be technes (rulership, persuasive speech)
- organizing knowledge into specific technes
✔✔differentiating medicine from philosophy - ✔✔- philosophy is just its starting point
- breaking way is its not useful anymore to it
✔✔the sophists - ✔✔professional teachers of rhetoric + philosophy
✔✔ideas of the sophists - ✔✔- man is the measurement of all truth
- language: nature or convention
- power of rhetoric
✔✔man is the measurement of all truth - ✔✔- doctors want basic facts
- sophists say all is relative
✔✔language: nature or convention - ✔✔doctors need common-terms and words
✔✔power of rhetoric - ✔✔- results are what matter for doctors
A+ GRADED A+ 2025/2026
✔✔regimen in acute diseases audience - ✔✔fellow doctors to alter patient prescriptions
✔✔evidence for regimen in acute diseases audience - ✔✔- anatomical language
- terms from everyday practice (crisis)
- specific instructions
✔✔regimen in acute diseases digestion - ✔✔idea of digestion not from dissection, but
from partially digested food of animals
✔✔rival medical schools in cos and cnidus - ✔✔- dedicated to asclepius but differing
ideas
- cnidus legends says hippocrates burned everything in cnidus
- founded by euryphon
✔✔euryphon - ✔✔- from podalirius and machaon
- evidence of existence from papyrus anonymus londinensis
✔✔euryphon + papyrus anonymus londinensis - ✔✔untrustworthy for saying that
digestion makes everything in the body
✔✔cnidan opinions - ✔✔- all doctors collaborated to add to text opinions from cnidus
- hippocrates burned this text
✔✔cnidan criticisms - ✔✔- prognosis
- 'opening medicine'
- disease classification
✔✔cnidan prognosis - ✔✔- too trusting of patients
- patients lie and dont know abt their bodies
- contrasts with hippocratic prognosis
✔✔cnidan 'opening medicine' - ✔✔- give patient milk as soon as disease starts
- not individualized, making a change without allow disease to take its course
✔✔cnidan disease classification - ✔✔- cnidans dont look at underlying similarities
between illnesses
- too many names
- improper classification
✔✔symptom (change) - ✔✔greater symptom = more change from norm
,✔✔treatment (change) - ✔✔regimen changes
✔✔cause of disease (change) - ✔✔abrupt diaita change
✔✔principle of opposition in hippocratic medicine - ✔✔sudden complete shift can cause
illness, must be gradual
✔✔change in excess - ✔✔bad
✔✔metabole - ✔✔change (in behavior)
✔✔acute disease - ✔✔- comes and goes
- sudden bursts of intensity
✔✔chronic disease - ✔✔long term
✔✔4 acute diseases - ✔✔- pleurisy
- pneumonia
- brain-fever
- causus
✔✔phrenitis (brain-fever) - ✔✔- general term for inflammation
- inflammation of mind + body
- symptoms: fever + madness/raving
✔✔causus fever - ✔✔- burning fever
- phrenitis without madness
✔✔pleurisy (later: lung-disease) - ✔✔- pleuris: rib/side
- pain in one's side
- empyema
✔✔empyema - ✔✔gathering/swelling of pus under skin
✔✔penumonia - ✔✔- pain on both sides
- later, a lung disease
✔✔barley gruel - ✔✔- perfect treatment of disease
- adaptable, making regime change gradual
✔✔barley gruel qualities - ✔✔- can be thick or thin
- bridge between food and drink
- cold
- can be moist or dry
, ✔✔dangers of barley gruel - ✔✔- must match with other diaita advice
- thick gruel for over a week = too much thick sputum that sucks up moisture +
suffocates
- no cold feet since that means death
✔✔water - ✔✔- no benefits
- enlarges spleen
- river water does not soothe cough nor promote expectoration of sputum
✔✔hydromel - ✔✔- better than water
- water + honey
- food + liquid = gentler
✔✔oxymel - ✔✔- drink this over vinegar
- vinegar dangerous for pregnancy
- vinegar + honey
✔✔wine - ✔✔- drink in moderation
- types of wine, sweetness
✔✔excess of wine - ✔✔- medical problem
- drunkenness, violent headache or derangement of mind
- water or extremely diluted wine should be given here
✔✔is medicine a techne? - ✔✔- originally for something practical
- abstract things came to be technes (rulership, persuasive speech)
- organizing knowledge into specific technes
✔✔differentiating medicine from philosophy - ✔✔- philosophy is just its starting point
- breaking way is its not useful anymore to it
✔✔the sophists - ✔✔professional teachers of rhetoric + philosophy
✔✔ideas of the sophists - ✔✔- man is the measurement of all truth
- language: nature or convention
- power of rhetoric
✔✔man is the measurement of all truth - ✔✔- doctors want basic facts
- sophists say all is relative
✔✔language: nature or convention - ✔✔doctors need common-terms and words
✔✔power of rhetoric - ✔✔- results are what matter for doctors
