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  • Traditional Chinese medicine, still used today, developed around 1800's. True or False
    False, 2,000 BC
  • The Greek Poet Homer's text the ____________________ gives descriptions of medical treatment of battle wounds.
    Iliad
  • Growth in __________________ increased the number of diseases spread among humans.
    Trade/ Travel
  • Western tradition of healthcare is traced to the _____________.
    Greeks
  • Bloodletting, purging and _______ all shared a belief in Galen's concept of the humors.
    Puking/ vomiting
  • Who was the Greek living during Roman times who was an expert on Hippocrates?
    Galen
  • What began to occur with more regularity when humans and domesticated animals increasingly came into contact with one another?`
    Zoonosis
  • What city in the Middle East became a global center for medical texts translated into Arabic?
    Baghdad
  • Using needles to apply pressure to specific energy points in the body is called what?
    Acupuncture
  • The Indian system of medical knowledge is called ______________?
    Ayurveda
  • Name one of the great philosophers of the Greek Enlightenment period.
    Aristotle or Plato
  • Early Mesopotamian texts record their ____________________ of diesease.
    Observations/ Notes
  • Roman doctors or "medici" were actually . . .
    Slaves or ex slaves
  • Baghdad was known for its "himaristan." What is that in English?
    Hospital or house for the sick
  • As the Stone Age came to an end nomadic hunter-gatherers gradually turned to what lifestyle?
    Farming
  • What occupied an important place in the teachings of the medieval church?
    Hospitals
  • Lazar Houses were established to take care of people with what disease?
    Leprosy
  • Paleolithic or early Stone Age people were hunter-gatherers. True or False
    True
  • Instead of cutting someone to let out the blood they also used these parasitic worms.
    Leeches
  • Galen's medical practice focused on the four humor fluids which were yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and ____________.
    Blood