Public health before modern medicine Questionbank

Aqueducts

Parthenon

Valetudinaria

Cloaca Maxima

Using microscopes to identify bacteria in water supplies

Administering mass vaccinations to urban populations

Burning herbs and incense to clear 'bad air'

Building widespread sewage systems to improve city hygiene

Taxes were used to provide free healthcare for peasants.

Physicians were only available to the wealthy, while the poor used herbal remedies or prayer.

The poor were given priority in state-run hospitals.

Slavery was abolished to improve the health of the labor force.

Vesalius

Paracelsus

Hippocrates

Galen

Quarantine isolation

Herbal fumigation

Flagellant processions

Miasma cleansing

Public health was viewed as a primary responsibility of central governments and was funded by specific taxes.

Public health measures were typically local and reactive, implemented primarily during times of crisis such as epidemics.

Centralized national health ministries were established to provide universal healthcare and sanitation services.

International treaties mandated that all governments maintain high standards of public hygiene and disease prevention.

The Romans still lacked an understanding of germ theory

The aqueducts were built with poisonous materials

The sewage systems were only used by the emperor

The infrastructure was too expensive to maintain

They had better access to accurate anatomical drawings than the rich

They were the only ones who were allowed to use the Roman public baths

They were given priority in the valetudinaria hospitals

They were forced to rely on herbal remedies or prayer instead of professional physicians

He established the first public sewage system in Europe

He proved that germs caused disease

He challenged the traditional theory of the four humours

He invented the first effective vaccine

Allowed for the immediate eradication of the Black Death

Introduced the use of antibiotics to balance the humours

Moved the explanation of illness away from the 'will of the gods' toward physical observation

Resulted in the first successful surgeries for infectious diseases