Medicine that is allopathy was invented by the Egyptians but was studied for the first time by the Greeks.Hippocrates is called the father of modern medicine.Since medicine was studied by the Greeks most of the words related to medicine are from the Greek language.This quiz is based on the four humours that the Greeks believed the human body was made of.They felt that the imbalance among these humours led to all diseases in humans.
These humours were as follows:
Blood called as 'sang' in Greek language (words from this root: sanguine [optimistic],sanguinary[bloody],sangfroid[cold blooded],sang real [royal blood])
Yellow bile known as 'chole' in Greek language (words from this root : choleric [irritant],cholera)
Black bile known as 'melan' in Greek language (words from this root : melancholy [dejected],melanin,melodrama)
Heat known as 'phlegm' in Greek language (word : phlegmatic)
Answers to the quiz :
1) life
2) bloodshed
3) both 1 and 2
4) calm and composed
5) chole - yellow bile
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