What is a natural theory of disease?
Pick 1 or more:
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The cause is something you saw happen or experienced eg. you fall over and cut your knee
It is caused by a natural force eg. the weather
You can logically explain why it happened.
Pregunta 2
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Egyptians linked health to the river Nile as it was the foundation of their civilisation and their lives relied upon it.
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True
False
Pregunta 3
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What were the four humours?
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Blood
Brown bile
Phlegm
Black phlegm
Black bile
Yellow bile
Pregunta 4
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Galen agreed completely with Hippocrates' ideas of the four humours.
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True
False
Pregunta 5
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William Harvey discovered what about the blood?
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It was like a pump, the same blood circulating round and round.
New blood was created in the liver to replace blood that was used up.
There was a finite amount of blood in the body, when it was used up the patient would die.
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Pick an answer that sums up inoculation and vaccination.
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I - Gave yourself (via injection) a disease to prevent yourself from getting it again.
I - Stay in quarantine so that you never come into contact with it :)
V - Get a different version of the disease you want to protect yourself from.
V - Inject yourself with a different, milder, disease that also gave you immunity to a more serious one.
Pregunta 7
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Germ theory replaced the old theory of [blank_start]spontaneous generation[blank_end], which said that the microbes were [blank_start]produced[blank_end] as a result of [blank_start]decay[blank_end], instead of them causing it. [blank_start]Louis Pasteur[blank_end] was a French scientist who came up with this theory. At first it was ridiculed by the medical community, but is now [blank_start]accepted[blank_end] today.