CLASSICS2902-Western University
midterm exam with all correct
answers.
The Mesopotamian and Egyptian medical cultures have the following
elements in common:
A. Healers were not priests and all treatment was practical and rational
B. careful observations, and deities cause illness
C. deities cause illness, and only priests can cure them
D. Deities cause illness and treatment was exclusively practical
B. careful observations, and deities cause illness
The following passage is an example of what?
"O ghost, male or female, thou hidden, thou concealed one, who dwelleth in
this my flesh, in these my limbs - get thee hence from this my flesh, from
these my limbs. Lo, I brought thee excrements to devour! Beware, hidden
one, be on your guard, concealed one, escape!"
A. Similia similibus treatment
B. Illness on the communal level
C. Magical treatment
D. Rational treatment
C. Magical treatment
,Which of the following is not true about Hippocratic ideas of disease and
health
A. Conditions such as climate, age, and season affect health
B. An imbalance of humours led to disease
C. Internal passages must remain unblocked to ensure health
D. Theories about disease were universally agreed upon
D. Theories about disease were universally agreed upon
According to the following passage, medicine was divided into which
categories?
"The third part of medicine is that which treats by the hand, as is generally
known and has been said by me. It does not disregard drugs and the
regulation of diet, but it does most things by hand, and its effects among all
the parts of medicine are most obvious. Because fortune accomplishes much
in illnesses, and the same things are sometimes beneficial and sometimes
empty. This can be understood from the eyes, which sometimes after being
harassed for a long time by physicians, get better without them. This part of
medicine, though it is extremely ancient, was developed more by
Hippocrates, that parent of all medicine, than by earlier physicians."
A. Surgery, Pharmacology, Regimen
B. Regimen, divine intervention, luck
C. humoral theory, surgery, and divine intervention
D. Pharmacology, luck, and humoral theory
A. Surgery, Pharmacology, Regimen
, Asclepius' healing qualities are closely associated with similar qualities in
which of the following divinities?
A. Athena
B. Zeus
C. Apollo
D. Artemis
C. Apollo
Which of the following is not a way of dealing with epilepsy in Roman medical
thinking?
A. surgical methods
B. covering the epileptic's head
C. spitting on the epileptic as a safety precaution
D. ketogenic diet
A. surgical methods
Who is known as a competent surgeon?
A. Celsus
B. Anaximander
C. Erasistratus
D. Pliny
C. Erasistratus
midterm exam with all correct
answers.
The Mesopotamian and Egyptian medical cultures have the following
elements in common:
A. Healers were not priests and all treatment was practical and rational
B. careful observations, and deities cause illness
C. deities cause illness, and only priests can cure them
D. Deities cause illness and treatment was exclusively practical
B. careful observations, and deities cause illness
The following passage is an example of what?
"O ghost, male or female, thou hidden, thou concealed one, who dwelleth in
this my flesh, in these my limbs - get thee hence from this my flesh, from
these my limbs. Lo, I brought thee excrements to devour! Beware, hidden
one, be on your guard, concealed one, escape!"
A. Similia similibus treatment
B. Illness on the communal level
C. Magical treatment
D. Rational treatment
C. Magical treatment
,Which of the following is not true about Hippocratic ideas of disease and
health
A. Conditions such as climate, age, and season affect health
B. An imbalance of humours led to disease
C. Internal passages must remain unblocked to ensure health
D. Theories about disease were universally agreed upon
D. Theories about disease were universally agreed upon
According to the following passage, medicine was divided into which
categories?
"The third part of medicine is that which treats by the hand, as is generally
known and has been said by me. It does not disregard drugs and the
regulation of diet, but it does most things by hand, and its effects among all
the parts of medicine are most obvious. Because fortune accomplishes much
in illnesses, and the same things are sometimes beneficial and sometimes
empty. This can be understood from the eyes, which sometimes after being
harassed for a long time by physicians, get better without them. This part of
medicine, though it is extremely ancient, was developed more by
Hippocrates, that parent of all medicine, than by earlier physicians."
A. Surgery, Pharmacology, Regimen
B. Regimen, divine intervention, luck
C. humoral theory, surgery, and divine intervention
D. Pharmacology, luck, and humoral theory
A. Surgery, Pharmacology, Regimen
, Asclepius' healing qualities are closely associated with similar qualities in
which of the following divinities?
A. Athena
B. Zeus
C. Apollo
D. Artemis
C. Apollo
Which of the following is not a way of dealing with epilepsy in Roman medical
thinking?
A. surgical methods
B. covering the epileptic's head
C. spitting on the epileptic as a safety precaution
D. ketogenic diet
A. surgical methods
Who is known as a competent surgeon?
A. Celsus
B. Anaximander
C. Erasistratus
D. Pliny
C. Erasistratus
