Classics 2902A Midterm 2 Questions With Complete
Solutions
"Numinous Pivot" Correct Answers qi (vital energy) moves
through the body through 2 main channels Mo and Mai.
3 major divisions of Ancient medicine Correct Answers 1.
Regimen (lifestyle changes)
2. Pharmacology
3. surgery
3 principles of effective healers (empiricists) Correct Answers
1. accurate observation
2. extenstive case memory
3. knowing limits and virtues of similarities
5 agents schema Correct Answers - 5 seasons
5 flavors
5 viscera
etc.
5 Sage Emperors task Correct Answers To civilize and
domesticate a savage world: each emperor corresponds to the 5
directions (North, south, east, west, center)
Accessing power and order of the cosmis: Correct Answers -
magical practices
- focus on dream interpretation, divination, and soul travel
acupuncture Correct Answers practice of adjusting bodily
essences using needles
,Ahura Mazda Correct Answers -supreme god
- the healer
Airyaman Correct Answers - harmonic union; friendship
- healer of 99,999 diseases; taught humans purification rituals
- syncretized with jesus christ
Anahita Correct Answers - divine water, wisdom, fertility,
healing
-predated zoroastrianism
-equated with Istar, Artemis
Anatomy & physiology of Alexandrian Medicine Correct
Answers - similar, examine concepts of seminal figures
Anatomy & physiology of Classical Greece Correct Answers -
not easily described with 1 dominant view
Athenian laywer Lysias Correct Answers Wife accused of
homicide, violated husband's rights
Attitudes towards surgery Correct Answers Evidence for
surgery is very fragmentary; most of our evidence comes from
Alexandria where surgery flourished
Ayurveda (whole body system of medicine) Correct Answers -
natural system of medicine
- disease: imbalance of one's consciousness
- lifestyle interventions and natural therapies to restore balance
, Ayurveda Theories Correct Answers - 5 basic elements: fire,
earth, water, air, ether
- 3 humors: wind, phlegm, bile
- 3 doshas (Pitta - fire, Kaphu earth, vata - air/wind)
Azi Dahaka Correct Answers - son of hostile spirits
- only causes harm
- associated with snakes and venom
Chinese character yi means Correct Answers - man who treats
diseases with liquors, which cures disorders
Classic of changes and classic of poets Correct Answers Herbal
Medicine
Classic of seas and mountains Correct Answers 130 kinds of
medicine
Contraception Correct Answers - Pre-attentive method for birth
control ""If a woman doesn't want to become pregnant, make a
thick mixture of beans and water, make her drink it, and she will
not become pregnant for a year."
- Exercise: The Lacedaemonian Leao
""I told her to jump up and down, touching her buttocks with her
heels at each leap. After she had done this no more than seven
times, there was a noise, the seed fell out on the ground, [...]"
- mechanical abortions last resort
Contraceptives (medicine to disrupt pregancy) Correct Answers
- silphium
- Pennyroyal
Solutions
"Numinous Pivot" Correct Answers qi (vital energy) moves
through the body through 2 main channels Mo and Mai.
3 major divisions of Ancient medicine Correct Answers 1.
Regimen (lifestyle changes)
2. Pharmacology
3. surgery
3 principles of effective healers (empiricists) Correct Answers
1. accurate observation
2. extenstive case memory
3. knowing limits and virtues of similarities
5 agents schema Correct Answers - 5 seasons
5 flavors
5 viscera
etc.
5 Sage Emperors task Correct Answers To civilize and
domesticate a savage world: each emperor corresponds to the 5
directions (North, south, east, west, center)
Accessing power and order of the cosmis: Correct Answers -
magical practices
- focus on dream interpretation, divination, and soul travel
acupuncture Correct Answers practice of adjusting bodily
essences using needles
,Ahura Mazda Correct Answers -supreme god
- the healer
Airyaman Correct Answers - harmonic union; friendship
- healer of 99,999 diseases; taught humans purification rituals
- syncretized with jesus christ
Anahita Correct Answers - divine water, wisdom, fertility,
healing
-predated zoroastrianism
-equated with Istar, Artemis
Anatomy & physiology of Alexandrian Medicine Correct
Answers - similar, examine concepts of seminal figures
Anatomy & physiology of Classical Greece Correct Answers -
not easily described with 1 dominant view
Athenian laywer Lysias Correct Answers Wife accused of
homicide, violated husband's rights
Attitudes towards surgery Correct Answers Evidence for
surgery is very fragmentary; most of our evidence comes from
Alexandria where surgery flourished
Ayurveda (whole body system of medicine) Correct Answers -
natural system of medicine
- disease: imbalance of one's consciousness
- lifestyle interventions and natural therapies to restore balance
, Ayurveda Theories Correct Answers - 5 basic elements: fire,
earth, water, air, ether
- 3 humors: wind, phlegm, bile
- 3 doshas (Pitta - fire, Kaphu earth, vata - air/wind)
Azi Dahaka Correct Answers - son of hostile spirits
- only causes harm
- associated with snakes and venom
Chinese character yi means Correct Answers - man who treats
diseases with liquors, which cures disorders
Classic of changes and classic of poets Correct Answers Herbal
Medicine
Classic of seas and mountains Correct Answers 130 kinds of
medicine
Contraception Correct Answers - Pre-attentive method for birth
control ""If a woman doesn't want to become pregnant, make a
thick mixture of beans and water, make her drink it, and she will
not become pregnant for a year."
- Exercise: The Lacedaemonian Leao
""I told her to jump up and down, touching her buttocks with her
heels at each leap. After she had done this no more than seven
times, there was a noise, the seed fell out on the ground, [...]"
- mechanical abortions last resort
Contraceptives (medicine to disrupt pregancy) Correct Answers
- silphium
- Pennyroyal
