Theories of Disease

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Different theories of disease throughout time
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Questão 1

Questão
What is a natural theory of disease? Pick 1 or more:
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 2

Questão
Egyptians linked health to the river Nile as it was the foundation of their civilisation and their lives relied upon it.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 3

Questão
What were the four humours?
Responda
  • Blood
  • Brown bile
  • Phlegm
  • Black phlegm
  • Black bile
  • Yellow bile

Questão 4

Questão
Galen agreed completely with Hippocrates' ideas of the four humours.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 5

Questão
William Harvey discovered what about the blood?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 6

Questão
Pick an answer that sums up inoculation and vaccination.
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 7

Questão
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.
Responda
  • spontaneous generation
  • produced
  • decay
  • Louis Pasteur
  • accepted

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