Ancient Medicine Exam 1 Questions With Complete
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[Hippocrates] Airs, Waters, Places Quote Correct Answers
"Whoever wishes to pursue properly the science of medicine
must proceed thus. First he ought to consider what effects each
season of the year can produce; for seasons are not all alike, but
differ widely both in themselves and at their changes. The next
point is that the hot winds and the cold, especially those that are
universal, but also those that are peculiar to each particular
region. He must also consider the properties of waters; for as
these differ in taste and in weight, so the property of each is far
different from that of any other. Therefore, on arrival at a town
with which he is unfamiliar, a physician should examine its
position with respect to the winds and to the risings of the sun.
For a northern, a southern, an eastern, and a western aspect has
each its own individual property. He must consider with the
greatest care both these things and how the natives are off for
water, whether they use marshy, soft waters, or such as are hard
and come from rocky heights, or brackish and harsh. The soil
too, whether bare and dry or wooded and watered, hollow and
hot or high and cold. The mode of life also of the inhabitants
that is pleasing to them, whether they are heavy drinkers, taking
lunch, and inactive, industrious, eating much and drinking
little ... Thus he would know what changes to expect in the
weather and not only would he enjoy good health himself for the
most part but he would be very successful in the practice of
medicine. If it should be thought that this is more the business of
the meteorologist, then learn that astronomy plays a very
important part in medicine since the changes of the seasons
produce changes in disease."
, —[Hippocrates] Airs, Waters, Places trans. Lloyd 148-9
[Hippocrates] Nature of Man Quote Correct Answers The
human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its
pains and health. Health is primarily that state in which these
constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each
other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed. Pain
occurs when one of the substances presents either a deficiency
or an excess, or is separated in the body and not mixed with the
others. It is inevitable that when one of these is separated from
the rest and stands by itself, not only the part from which it has
come, but also that where it collects and is present in excess,
should become diseased, and because it contains to much of the
particular substance, cause pain and distress.
—[Hippocrates] Nature of Man trans. Lloyd 262
[Hippocrates] Nature of Man quote 2 Correct Answers "To put
it briefly: the physician should treat disease by the principle of
opposition to the cause of the disease according to its form, its
seasonal and age incidence, countering tenseness by relaxation
and vice versa."
-[Hippocrates] Nature of Man trans. Lloyd 266
3rd World Health Problems Correct Answers -Nutritional
deficiencies (skin/eye diseases)
-Unsanitary water supplies
-Environmental factors (malaria, TB)
Agonism Correct Answers the doctor fights with disease
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[Hippocrates] Airs, Waters, Places Quote Correct Answers
"Whoever wishes to pursue properly the science of medicine
must proceed thus. First he ought to consider what effects each
season of the year can produce; for seasons are not all alike, but
differ widely both in themselves and at their changes. The next
point is that the hot winds and the cold, especially those that are
universal, but also those that are peculiar to each particular
region. He must also consider the properties of waters; for as
these differ in taste and in weight, so the property of each is far
different from that of any other. Therefore, on arrival at a town
with which he is unfamiliar, a physician should examine its
position with respect to the winds and to the risings of the sun.
For a northern, a southern, an eastern, and a western aspect has
each its own individual property. He must consider with the
greatest care both these things and how the natives are off for
water, whether they use marshy, soft waters, or such as are hard
and come from rocky heights, or brackish and harsh. The soil
too, whether bare and dry or wooded and watered, hollow and
hot or high and cold. The mode of life also of the inhabitants
that is pleasing to them, whether they are heavy drinkers, taking
lunch, and inactive, industrious, eating much and drinking
little ... Thus he would know what changes to expect in the
weather and not only would he enjoy good health himself for the
most part but he would be very successful in the practice of
medicine. If it should be thought that this is more the business of
the meteorologist, then learn that astronomy plays a very
important part in medicine since the changes of the seasons
produce changes in disease."
, —[Hippocrates] Airs, Waters, Places trans. Lloyd 148-9
[Hippocrates] Nature of Man Quote Correct Answers The
human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its
pains and health. Health is primarily that state in which these
constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each
other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed. Pain
occurs when one of the substances presents either a deficiency
or an excess, or is separated in the body and not mixed with the
others. It is inevitable that when one of these is separated from
the rest and stands by itself, not only the part from which it has
come, but also that where it collects and is present in excess,
should become diseased, and because it contains to much of the
particular substance, cause pain and distress.
—[Hippocrates] Nature of Man trans. Lloyd 262
[Hippocrates] Nature of Man quote 2 Correct Answers "To put
it briefly: the physician should treat disease by the principle of
opposition to the cause of the disease according to its form, its
seasonal and age incidence, countering tenseness by relaxation
and vice versa."
-[Hippocrates] Nature of Man trans. Lloyd 266
3rd World Health Problems Correct Answers -Nutritional
deficiencies (skin/eye diseases)
-Unsanitary water supplies
-Environmental factors (malaria, TB)
Agonism Correct Answers the doctor fights with disease
