Ancient Medicine Exam 1 UIOWA Questions With
Complete Solutions
- a woman (pandora) is the reason why there is illness and Zeus
made her this way and no one can understand why Correct
Answers Hesiod's "Works and Days"
- account of signs
- account of disease development
- account of the patient's future Correct Answers [Hippocrates]
"Prognosis"
- accounts of many people dying and how there were so many
bodies that not everyone could have a proper burial
- people were dead and stacked on top of one another and then
burned because of no room to hold all the bodies Correct
Answers Thucydides' "Account of the plague"
- deals with the seasons, the winds, the water and that all of
these things produce change in diseases Correct Answers
[Hippocrates] "Airs, Waters, Places"
- dealt with 4 humors of the body
- treatment of opposites Correct Answers [Hippocrates]
"Nature of Man"
- diseases were due to residues of food not because of imbalance
in the humors
- surprising testimony Correct Answers Anonymous
Londinensis
, - first personalized cases (all ages, all ranks in society, all
genders) Correct Answers [Hippocrates] "Epidemics"
- he swears by the gods
- he says he will pass down his knowledge to his sons and pupils
but to none other Correct Answers [Hippocrates] "The Oath"
- trojan priest prays for revenge to the gods and then Apollo sets
a plague on the greeks Correct Answers "Homer's Iliad"
Agonism Correct Answers - doctor fights against diseases,
that's their role
Alcmaeon of Croton Correct Answers - 500-480 BCE
- first to excise the eye
- health as a harmonious blending of qualities
Alopathic Correct Answers - treatment by opposites
Anonymous Londinensis Correct Answers - 100-200 CE;
papyrus roll
- suggests that Hippocrates believed that diseases were due to
residues of food (not imbalances of humors)
- very surprising
Assumptions of retrospective diagnosis Correct Answers - 1.
the source text is sound (good context, precise vocab)
- 2. some core of medical thinking is unchanged
- 3. biological processes are constant (humans and bacteria did
not change, & if so, very little change)
Complete Solutions
- a woman (pandora) is the reason why there is illness and Zeus
made her this way and no one can understand why Correct
Answers Hesiod's "Works and Days"
- account of signs
- account of disease development
- account of the patient's future Correct Answers [Hippocrates]
"Prognosis"
- accounts of many people dying and how there were so many
bodies that not everyone could have a proper burial
- people were dead and stacked on top of one another and then
burned because of no room to hold all the bodies Correct
Answers Thucydides' "Account of the plague"
- deals with the seasons, the winds, the water and that all of
these things produce change in diseases Correct Answers
[Hippocrates] "Airs, Waters, Places"
- dealt with 4 humors of the body
- treatment of opposites Correct Answers [Hippocrates]
"Nature of Man"
- diseases were due to residues of food not because of imbalance
in the humors
- surprising testimony Correct Answers Anonymous
Londinensis
, - first personalized cases (all ages, all ranks in society, all
genders) Correct Answers [Hippocrates] "Epidemics"
- he swears by the gods
- he says he will pass down his knowledge to his sons and pupils
but to none other Correct Answers [Hippocrates] "The Oath"
- trojan priest prays for revenge to the gods and then Apollo sets
a plague on the greeks Correct Answers "Homer's Iliad"
Agonism Correct Answers - doctor fights against diseases,
that's their role
Alcmaeon of Croton Correct Answers - 500-480 BCE
- first to excise the eye
- health as a harmonious blending of qualities
Alopathic Correct Answers - treatment by opposites
Anonymous Londinensis Correct Answers - 100-200 CE;
papyrus roll
- suggests that Hippocrates believed that diseases were due to
residues of food (not imbalances of humors)
- very surprising
Assumptions of retrospective diagnosis Correct Answers - 1.
the source text is sound (good context, precise vocab)
- 2. some core of medical thinking is unchanged
- 3. biological processes are constant (humans and bacteria did
not change, & if so, very little change)
