Era

Question 0

• Asclepias was considered the God of medicine
• emphasis on personal over public health
• health was considered to result from a balance between mind and body
• hippocrates
• empedodes and the four humors

Answer 0

Greek era

Question 1

• Egyptians
• sickness was good and evil spirits
• some sought healing from magical formulas
• drugs containing fecal matter was used

Answer 1

Classical era

Question 2

• greek culture continued to be strong influence
• they provided many of their citizens with what we would consider public health service
• Galen
• mobile war nursing
• sewer systems
• nursing become distinct

Answer 2

Roman era

Question 3

• After the decline of the Roman empire.
• once again myth, magic and religion
• nursing was influenced by christianity (deaconesses)
• Roman military hospitals were replaced by civilian ones
• communicable disease (infection impossible to control)
• black death (caused by flea bites)

Answer 3

Middle ages

Question 4

• viewed both as a blessing and a curse
• renewed interest in arts and sciences, which helped advance medical science
• monastic-affiliated institutions, including hospitals and school were closed and order of nun and nurses dissolved
• dark period of nursing

Answer 4

Renaissance era

Question 5

• machinery was invented during this era
• people left rural areas and moved to urban
• overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, working long hours
• public health comes to focus
• plages remain major source of illness
• U.S. declares independence from Britian

Answer 5

18th century (Industrial Revolution)