Gods
The Four Humors and their Legacy
Hippocrates
Galen
100

Who was the Goddess of Medicine?

What is Hygieia?

100

The names of the Four Humors

What is Blood, Yellow bile, Black bile, and Phlegm?

100

Where did Hippocrates conduct and practice medicine?

What is on the Greek island of Kos?

100

When was Galen born?

What is A.D. 129?

200

Who is one of the earliest Greek demigods to specialize in healing?

What is Asclepius?

200

The idea of the Four Humors began to fall out of favor when?  

What is in the 17th century and it was disproved in the 1850s with the idea of germ theory.

200

What did a famous Hippocratic tract say about how illnesses started?

What is illness was caused by a imbalance within the four different liquids called humors?

200

When did Galen's career start?

What is when he returned to Pergamum in 159 AD?

300

Who taught Asclepius all he knew?

What is Chiron?

300

Which Humor(s) is depicted in Shakespeare's work? 

What is yellow bile?

300

Who wrote the earliest found biography of Hippocrates?

What is Soranus?

300

Which one of Galen's ideas was insane for the time?

What is that the study of anatomy was essential for medical knowledge?

400

How did Asclepius die?

What is other gods were furious because he was helping mortals and nobody was dying. Zeus threw a thunderbolt killing Asclepius?

400

Aristotle’s ideas of the theory of the Humors led to the beginning of what?

What is the comparative anatomy and progress in embryology?

400

What did the Hippocratic approach to medicine teach about illnesses?

What is it taught that illnesses had natural causes and could be studied and rarely cured by the workings of nature.  

400

Andreas Vesalius published a book called Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body. These books, were also recognized as what?

What is De Humani Corporis Fabrica?