Principles of Health Science – Final Exam Review – Study Guide & Practice
Questions
what did primitive people believe was the cause of illness? - correct answer
✔✔supernatural/evil spirits
define superstitious - correct answer ✔✔belief in supernatural beings
define trepanation - correct answer ✔✔surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or
scraped into a human skull
explain what morphine was used to treat in ancient herbal medicine - correct answer ✔✔used
to treat severe pain
what are the 4 humors used in the balance theory - correct answer ✔✔blood, phlegm, yellow
bile, and black bile
who kept the earliest accurate written records? - correct answer ✔✔the ancient Egyptians
who used bloodletting? - correct answer ✔✔ancient Egyptians
what do we use today that is similar to bloodletting? - correct answer ✔✔leeches
what did the ancient Indians discover in medicine? - correct answer ✔✔the use of plants for
medicine
what were the Chinese diagnostic dolls made of? - correct answer ✔✔ivory
, what were the Chinese diagnostic dolls used for? - correct answer ✔✔used by male doctors
when they had female patients because they could not touch female patients
what was the Chinese herb ginger used for? - correct answer ✔✔nausea
who is known as the "Father of Medicine?" - correct answer ✔✔Hippocrates
What were the first medical ethics known as? - correct answer ✔✔Hippocratic Oath
What was the purpose of the aqeuducts? - correct answer ✔✔to carry water to the city of
Rome
Who made the aqueducts and public baths? - correct answer ✔✔ancient Romans
who could go to the public baths? - correct answer ✔✔both rich and poor people; women and
men used separate baths
what was the Bubonic Plague known as? - correct answer ✔✔Black Death
how many people died from the Bubonic Plague? - correct answer ✔✔60 million people
what did Leonardo di Vinci contribute to medicine? - correct answer ✔✔drawings of the human
body based on dissection
what did Anton van Leeuwenhoek invent to see bacteria? - correct answer ✔✔microscope
who discovered the smallpox vaccine? - correct answer ✔✔Edward Jenner
Questions
what did primitive people believe was the cause of illness? - correct answer
✔✔supernatural/evil spirits
define superstitious - correct answer ✔✔belief in supernatural beings
define trepanation - correct answer ✔✔surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or
scraped into a human skull
explain what morphine was used to treat in ancient herbal medicine - correct answer ✔✔used
to treat severe pain
what are the 4 humors used in the balance theory - correct answer ✔✔blood, phlegm, yellow
bile, and black bile
who kept the earliest accurate written records? - correct answer ✔✔the ancient Egyptians
who used bloodletting? - correct answer ✔✔ancient Egyptians
what do we use today that is similar to bloodletting? - correct answer ✔✔leeches
what did the ancient Indians discover in medicine? - correct answer ✔✔the use of plants for
medicine
what were the Chinese diagnostic dolls made of? - correct answer ✔✔ivory
, what were the Chinese diagnostic dolls used for? - correct answer ✔✔used by male doctors
when they had female patients because they could not touch female patients
what was the Chinese herb ginger used for? - correct answer ✔✔nausea
who is known as the "Father of Medicine?" - correct answer ✔✔Hippocrates
What were the first medical ethics known as? - correct answer ✔✔Hippocratic Oath
What was the purpose of the aqeuducts? - correct answer ✔✔to carry water to the city of
Rome
Who made the aqueducts and public baths? - correct answer ✔✔ancient Romans
who could go to the public baths? - correct answer ✔✔both rich and poor people; women and
men used separate baths
what was the Bubonic Plague known as? - correct answer ✔✔Black Death
how many people died from the Bubonic Plague? - correct answer ✔✔60 million people
what did Leonardo di Vinci contribute to medicine? - correct answer ✔✔drawings of the human
body based on dissection
what did Anton van Leeuwenhoek invent to see bacteria? - correct answer ✔✔microscope
who discovered the smallpox vaccine? - correct answer ✔✔Edward Jenner
