2017-11-30
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Questions
1. Common features of Mesopotamian civilisation.
2. How Mesopotamian medicine reflected the ideas and practices of Mesopotamian civilisation?
3. What caused Mesopotamians to be healthy or unhealthy?
4. What ideas the Mesopotamians had about causes and treatment of illness and injuries?
5. Main written sources about medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia.
6. Who provided medical care in Ancient Mesopotamia?
7. The metodology of diagnosis in Ancient Mesopotamia?
8. Methods of treatment in Ancient Mesootamia.
9. Basic principles of medical ethics in Ancient Mesopotamia.
10. Common features of Egyptian civilisation.
11. What caused Egyptians to be healthy or unhealthy?
12. What ideas the Egyptians had about causes and treatment of illness and injuries?
13. Who provided medical care in Ancient Egypt?
14. Metods of diagnosis in Ancient Egypt?
15. Methods of treatment in Ancient Egypt.
16. Basic principles of medical ethics in Ancient Egypt.
Topics for reports
1. Basic written sources about medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia.
2. Drugs and remedies in Ancient Mesopotamia.
3. Basic written sources about medicine in Ancient Egypt: Smith Papyrus, Ebers Papyrus.
4. Ideas abot life and death in Ancient Egypt. Mummification and embalming as source on knowledge about human anatomy
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Variant 1
Name “Mesopotamia” means
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a) under river
b) between rivers
c) without rivers
The first Code of laws was made by Mesopotamian king
a) Ashurbanipal
b) Nebuchadnezzar
c) Hammurabi
The God of medicine and healing in Ancient Mesopotamia was
a) Nabu
b) Marduk
c) Gilgamesh
Asu was
a) prist who made diagnosis and prognosis
b) exorcist
c) physician
Baru was
a) prist who made diagnosis and prognosis
b) exorcist
c) physician
Of which physiological functions did the ancient Egyptians show a good knowledge?
a) pulse, breathing, nervous system, liver
b) pulse, breathing, brain, liver
c) pulse, breathing, brain, blood circulation
What did ancient Egyptians think a Wehedu did?
a) blocked channels
b) oversaw child-birth
c) controlled the seasons
What did ancient Egyptians use that had antiseptic properties?
a) willow bark
b) willow-herb
c) willow leaves
How do we know about ancient Egyptian surgical instruments?
a) through stone carvings
b) through papyri
c) through artefacts
10. Most of the diagnoses of ancient Egyptian doctors were based on...
a) the Channel Theory
b) natural substances
c) observation
Which of the following is NOT true?
a) Ancient Egyptian doctors measured their medicines using a unit of measurement called a 'ro'.
b) Ancient Egyptian doctors used vomiting, bleeding and purging to balance the 'four humours'.
c) Ancient Egyptian doctors included a prayer in their remedies, to give them additional power.
Where did an ancient Egyptian sleep?
a) in bed
b) on the roof of their house
c) under a mosquito net
How did an ancient Egyptian stay healthy?
a) by keeping clean
b) by wearing a fish tail
c) by regular exercise
Which of these is least correct?
a) The ancient Egyptians developed spiritual cures to put the body right.
b) The ancient Egyptians developed empirical cures to put the body right.
c) The ancient Egyptians developed scientific cures to put the body right.
Which of the following sentences show that ancient Egyptians behaved in an 'empirical' way in their attempts to treat disease?
a) Egyptians used observation and recorded facts.
b) Egyptians brought healing substances from all over the known world.
c) Egyptian pharaohs employed specialist physicians.
16. Which of the following practices of ancient Egyptian religion helped medicine?
a) medicine was practised by magicians and priests
b) mummification
c) cleanliness
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