Ancient Medicine Exam 1 UIOWA with correct answers 100% 2026

Ancient Medicine Exam 1 UIOWA with correct answers 100% 2026 Hippocrates (historical) - Correct Answer - from Cos - from the family of Asclepius - traveled - taught medicine for money - had theories of the body and the universe Paleopathology - Correct Answer - the reconstruction of the disease in historic individuals or populations Pathocoenosis - Correct Answer -paleopathology at the level of a population -stable when disease exist continuously within a population -(textual, archaeological, & comparative evidence) Stable Pathocoenosis - Correct Answer -modern western society: degenerative diseases~cancer -ancient mediterranean society: poor hygiene~typhoid fever and dysentery retrospective diagnosis - Correct Answer -done at level of individual -tries to match symptoms from the text to modern day symptoms -infers that the cause is the same - 3 assumptions: source text is good, some medical thinking is unchanged & biological processes are constant (body & or bacteria hasn't changed) Before Hippocrates: - Correct Answer 3 strands of medical knowledge: 1. foreign healing cultures 2. medical knowledge in folk tradition 3. philosophical interest in natural world Kohl - Correct Answer -a black powder, used as eye makeup especially in Eastern countries - antiseptic that they used to keep out bacteria Edwin Smith Papyrus - Correct Answer - BCE - most rational healing (not magical) from written sources -case studies of head injuries - surgical treatments w/ no reference to gods Homer - Correct Answer - greek folk tradition - ancient greek author (oral poet) - wrote the "Iliad" (700 BCE) - war between greeks and trojans - poem starts with a plague (trojans pray to Apollo to set revenge on the greeks, Apollo sets plague on greeks) - smart with medical context Machaon - Correct Answer - son of Asclepius (famous healer) - healer - removes arrows, sucks out poisonous blood and applies "soothing cream" - doesn't ask gods to help heal wounds iatros - Correct Answer - healer, physician Hesiod - Correct Answer - greek folk tradition - ancient greek author (oral poet) - wrote "Works and Days" (700 BCE) (myth of the decline of man from god and includes intro of disease to humans) Pre-Socratic Philosophers - Correct Answer - philosophers before Socrates - interested in moral questions and natural philosophy Alcmaeon of Croton - Correct Answer - 500-480 BCE - first to excise the eye - health as a harmonious blending of qualities Empedocles - Correct Answer - 460-430 BCE - theory of 4 elements; earth, air, fire, water - compared breathing to water filling and leaving water clock