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Theories of Disease

Question 1 of 7

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What is a natural theory of disease?
Pick 1 or more:

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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.

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Question 2 of 7

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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.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 3 of 7

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What were the four humours?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Blood

  • Brown bile

  • Phlegm

  • Black phlegm

  • Black bile

  • Yellow bile

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Question 4 of 7

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Galen agreed completely with Hippocrates' ideas of the four humours.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 5 of 7

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William Harvey discovered what about the blood?

Select one of the following:

  • 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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Question 6 of 7

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Pick an answer that sums up inoculation and vaccination.

Select one or more of the following:

  • 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.

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Question 7 of 7

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

Germ theory replaced the old theory of , which said that the microbes were as a result of , instead of them causing it. was a French scientist who came up with this theory. At first it was ridiculed by the medical community, but is now today.

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