Ancient Medicine Exam 1 quiz with correct answers 100% 2026

Ancient Medicine Exam 1 quiz with correct answers 100% 2026 Pathocoenosis - Correct Answer The reconstruction of disease at the population level. It is stable when diseases exist continuously within a population. Retrospective disgnosis - Correct Answer Tries to match symptoms from the text with symptoms known from contemporary disease profiles. Infers that the cause (etiological agent) is the same. Usually done at the individual level. Material Monism - Correct Answer the philosophical view that only one kind of substance exists Material Pluralism - Correct Answer the philosophical view that multiple kinds of substances exist. Organismic Model of Disease - Correct Answer says that disease lies at the individual level and can be removed Ecological Model of Disease - Correct Answer says that disease exists within a demographic and is a constant that can't be eradicated Folk Medicine - Correct Answer usually a culture's native healing tradition: it often concerns localized knowledge of healing plants, animals, waters, and earths passed down within a family knowledge of healing and is therefore often unwritten. Philosophical Medicine - Correct Answer written, transmitted not within a family tradition, and depends on systematic ideas about nature and causality. It is meant to point to the close links in origin between Greek philosophy and Greek medicine and does not attempt to claim our rationalistic scientific practices for their science. Endemic disease - Correct Answer a disease at the level of the individual that exists permanently in a particular region or population Epidemic Disease - Correct Answer An outbreak of disease that attacks many peoples at about the same time and may spread through one or several communities Carphology - Correct Answer convulsive or involuntary movements made by delirious patients, such as plucking at the bedclothes Sources for constructing pathocoenosis - Correct Answer Textual, Archaeological, and Comparative Evidence Textual evidence - Correct Answer Written findings: epigraphic, papyrological, and manuscript Archaeological evidence - Correct Answer Skeletal remains or material findings like medical instruments Comparative Evidence - Correct Answer Using disease profiles from third world countries to compare to ancient evidence Common Disease of the Developing World - Correct Answer Nutritional Deficiencies (eye disease, cataracts, skin diseases), Disease caused by Unsanitary Water Supplies (dysentery, typhoid,gastroenteritis) , Disease due to Environmental Factors (malaria, tuberculosis), and STDs Types of Textual Sources - Correct Answer Epigraphic, Papyrological, Manuscript Epigraphic - Correct Answer documents written on stone [gravestones, honorific inscriptions] from all over the Mediterranean. Tells us about the social world, but we learn nothing about medical theory. Papyrological - Correct Answer information written on papyrus coming only from Egypt due to the desert climate from 2nd century BCE to 6th century BCE. Provides the best general picture of average healers, but are short and do not provide individual theories or ideas, just a general picture of cultural healing practices. Manuscript/Literary - Correct Answer material that has been written on velum [animal skins]. Much was written, but much was lost and certain things were never written down due to issues with literacy. sources for pre-hippocratic medicine - Correct Answer foreign healing cultures, medical knowledge in folk tradition, philosophical interest in the natural world Early Greek Philosophers - Correct Answer Thales (first), Alcmaeon of Croton, Empedocles of Acragas, Time Periods of Ancient History - Correct Answer Classical Greece [500-323 BCE], Hellenistic Period [323-31 BCE], Roman Empire [31 BCE-250 CE], Late Antiquity [250-600 CE] Extant Ancient Medical Authors - Correct Answer Hippocrates, Apollonius, Celsus, Erotian, Scribonius Largus, Dioscorides, Pliny the Elder, Marcellinus, Soranus, Aretaeus, Rufus of Ephesus, Anonymous Londinensis, Galen, Oribasius, Caelius Aurelianus, Paul of Aegina Sources for Knowledge about the Historical Hippocrates - Correct Answer Plato, Aristotle, Anonymous Londinensis Types of Treatises in the Hippocratic Corpus - Correct Answer Surgical, Philosophical, Cnidian, Ethical Development of the Hippocratic Corpus - Correct Answer a collec