Ancient Medicine

The Four Humours

• Phlegm - Believed it was built up with cold and moist winter weather. Would be cleared by making people sneeze and cough. Water
• Yellow Bile - Is sick and was believed to be built up by Hot and Dry Summer Weather. The level of yellow bile would be lowered by feeding the ill person and making the throw up in any way possible.
• Black Bile - Feeding the patient more and making them poo to lower the levels of black bile. It was believed that black bile was build up by Autumn which is a warm and Windy season that was described as Earth type.
• Blood - Was Believed to be built up by spring's warm and moist weathers they called this air. To lower the levels of blood they would use a bleeding cup and cut the person's body.

The Four Humours

• Aristotle came up with the idea of the four humours and believed that if one of the four humours was higher than the person would become ill this also came with a theory that there was a cause for one of the levels rising it was usually the problem was to do with weather conditions this theory was a good thing as it really kickstarted the theory of looking into what makes us ill instead of blaming it on bad air and the gods punishing them for sin. Although it was a set back in a was as people in Europe used it for 1000 years and didn't really do much more research into medical Philosophy.

Hippocrates

• Hippocrates believed in the four humours and advanced them further with more ways to level them out. He also made clinical observation which included 4 steps in the word of DPOT this is still used today with doctors in England and elsewhere he also created the 'Hippocratic Oath' which states that doctors will serve for the patients good and not there own good.

Ideas of exercise and healthy living

• Hippocrates created the idea that a change of diet and exercise was good for an ill person or someone recovering from a serious illness also if the person was having alot of problems with black bile and yellow bile Hippocrates would advise a change of diet and not to eat so much if that was the case and if that didn't work then he would clear out the anus.

Galen and anatomy

• Galen wanted to show that we speak from the brain rather than the heart so he did a public dissection in front of the government were he cut open an alive pig and cut strands from the brain until the pig stopped making noise and so he got the government on his side for that argument he also wanted to look at human bodies in more depth but the closest thing he could get to a human was apes this created a problem in his research about the kidneys he wanted to look at human bodies so he went to gladiator schools to look at open wounds then went to family graves to look at bones he also went to the caves of hangings to inspect the dead bodies.