If you had a spinal deformity such as a humpback, an ancient Greek doctor would…

• Ask you to confess your sins and then offer forgiveness.
• Tie you upside down on a ladder.
• Make you lie down and then stand on your back.
• Tell you to leave the country (go into exile).

Why would an ancient Greek doctor prescribe a night’s sleep in a temple dedicated to the god of medicine?

• To ensure the patient got a good night’s sleep.
• To purify the patient of their illness.
• To allow the god to visit the patient in their dreams.
• To quarantine the patient and prevent them from spreading their illness to others. 

In ancient Greece, why shouldn’t someone with epilepsy wear black?

• Because black was the colour of death.
• Because epilepsy could be cured by sunlight.
• In case they were mistaken for a priest.

Got a headache? What would an ancient Roman doctor advise you to do?

• Plunge into a bath full of ice.
• Go for a long walk by the sea.
• Put a fish on your head.
• Eat lots of pickled cabbage.

When he was a young man, the legendary Greek king Odysseus was wounded in the thigh by a wild boar while out hunting. How did his companions stop the bleeding?

• They recited a special spell.
• They applied a particular herb to the wound.
• They massaged the leg.

Which ancient Greek poet was once believed to have been a doctor, because the medical knowledge revealed in their poems seemed so advanced?

• Sappho
• Homer
• Ovid 
• Virgil 

What might be treated by crocodile dung, goat’s milk, honey and fluid from a hyena’s liver?

• Insomnia
• Sensitivity to light 
• Blood poisoning
• Jaundice

Which disease did the Romans believe was caused by harmful fumes from marshy ground?

• Tuberculosis
• Syphilis
• Malaria
• Cholera