Ancient Medicine and Tuberculosis Treatments Quiz

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Who is credited with originating the 'germ theory' and believed that tuberculosis was contagious?

  • John Jacob Monget
  • Hippocrates
  • Jean Antone Villeman
  • Girolamus Fracastorius (correct)

When did Robert Koch announce the discovery of the tubercle bacillus (bacterium of Koch)?

  • 1700
  • 1483-1553
  • 350-400 B.C.
  • 1882 (correct)

Who gave a very accurate description of the disease, which later refer to tuberculosis, and mentioned that fever, sweating, fatigue, and lassitude were symptoms of tuberculosis?

  • Girolamus Fracastorius
  • John Jacob Monget
  • Hippocrates (correct)
  • Jean Antone Villeman

Who recorded the first systemic description of the clinical manifestations and epidemiologic features of phthisis in the Hippocratic Collection?

<p>Hippocrates (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what year did Jean Antone Villeman begin a series of experiments, 20 years before Koch's discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

<p>1865 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited to have given the description of classical milliary tuberculosis?

<p>John Jacob Monget (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

"Bleeding, purging, emetics, or other interventions" were used as remedies for diseases in which ancient time period?

<p>350-400 B.C. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

"The causes and symptoms of chronic diseases" by which ancient figure gave a very accurate description of tuberculosis?

<p>Hippocrates (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited with giving a very accurate description of the disease, which later refer to tuberculosis, and mentioned that fever, sweating, fatigue, and lassitude were symptoms of tuberculosis?

<p>Hippocrates (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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